Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.

Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.

Contentment is an undervalued grace.