Good works are indispensable to salvation – not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship – our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.
The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly...
The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ’s achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
The overriding reason why we should take other people’s cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God’s grace.
Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.
Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.