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

We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.

Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of worship. We might say that worship is simply theology, doctrine, what we think about God, going into top gear! Instead of merely thinking about Him, we tell Him, in prayer and praise and song, how great and glorious we believe Him to be!

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.