Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?