So I offer my definition of theology: theology is the application of Scripture, by persons, to every area of life.

For all its newness, we can understand the Reformation as a Renaissance phenomenon. It is antiquarian in the sense that it returns ad fontes, to the Scriptures and the older church fathers, particularly Augustine, bypassing much, but not all, of medieval scholasticism. It is humanistic in that it is concerned in a fresh way with the individual's relation to God.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.

When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.

Dying to something old, a pattern that is comfortable in its dysfunction, so that one can move to a different system, a new freedom.

True conversion is the renouncing of the world, the flesh, and the devil; and it is at our peril that we lust after the things we have abandoned. As Matthew Henry (1662-1714) says, "Drawing back is to perdition, and looking back is towards it.

How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord.

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.