The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.