The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

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.

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

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