"One reason skeptics have questioned the historicity of the book [of Jonah] is the remarkable response of the Ninevites to the preaching of Jonah (3:5); we respond that this was a greater miracle than what the fish did. Jonah himself must have anticipated that God would do His work in their hearts to bring about repentance (as He did for the Gentiles in Acts 11:18)." —Robert D. Bell

"Ezekiel’s sight of Messiah was an appropriate conclusion to a vision designed to encourage him and prepare him for his ministry. Similarly, as Christians behold the sovereign glory of Christ in the pages of Scripture and become overwhelmed with Him by faith, they can face whatever challenge or circumstance is before them." —Michael P. V. Barrett

“Worshiping in spirit is the opposite of worshiping in merely external ways. It is the opposite of empty formalism and traditionalism. Worshiping in truth is the opposite of worship based on an inadequate view of God. Worship must have heart and head. Worship must engage emotions and thoughts. Truth without emotion produces dead orthodoxy and a church full (or half-full) of artificial admirers (like people who write generic anniversary cards for a living). On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. But true worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship." — John Piper

“Solomon had it all, tried it all, lost it all, repented of it all, and in the end saw it all from God’s perspective again.” - Jim Berg

“Our fundamental responsibility to God is grounded in the fact that He made us and He made us in Himself. The essence of our rebellion is to deny that He made us that we have any responsibility to Him. The doctrine of Creation grounds all human responsibility before Him.” –DA Carson

New short series on the theology of Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, and Ezekiel. The series ends with a biblical theology of worship.

I commit my soul to my gracious God and Savior, who mercifully spared and preserved me, when I was an apostate, a blasphemer, and an infidel, and delivered me from the state of misery on the coast of Africa into which my obstinate wickedness had plunged me; and who has been pleased to admit me (though most unworthy) to preach his glorious gospel.  —John Newton

“Oh, no, you misunderstood. I was only a cobbler (shoe repairman).” —William Carrey

"To endeavor to give to every portion of the Word of God its full and proper force, without considering what scheme it favors or what system it is likely to advance... never to speak more or less than I believe to be the mind of the Spirit in the passage I am expounding." —Charles Simeon

If your face is now covered with sorrow, the time will come when you will bless God for that sorrow. The day will come when you will see great gain from your losses, your crosses, your troubles and your affliction. From your affliction this glory shall spring, and the deeper your sorrow the louder you’ll sing. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon