Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?