I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.
By raising Christ from death, God as the supreme Judge set his seal to the absolute perfection and completeness of his atoning work. The resurrection is a public announcement to the world that the penalty of death has been borne by Christ to its bitter end and that in consequence the dominion of guilt has been broken, the curse annihilated forever more.
Biblical Theology. . . is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity. . . Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.
There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.
When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.
As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.
It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.