The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
You can’t reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.
When you’re writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you’ve deliberately missed something out.
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures – in particular, through his image-bearing human beings – but they have all let Him down.
The message of Easter is that God’s new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you’re now invited to belong to it.
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn’t give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.
True worship doesn’t put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn’t forced, isn’t half-hearted, doesn’t keep looking at its watch, doesn’t worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
God’s plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was “very good.” Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
If you believe in the Bible, you’ve got to do business with it and not just screen it out.
The Bible is there to enable God’s people to be equipped to do God’s work in God’s world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God’s truth.
True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.
Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project.
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.