We can simply stand on the testimony, and stand we must—not with our gospel guns raised to shoot but, as humble lovers of the truth, ready to quietly serve or boldly speak up as the calling of faith requires.

This psalm sees the whole trajectory, from justification to sanctification and, indeed, even envisions that final day when we are delivered from not only the guilt and power of sin, but even the presence of sin.

Give us the discernment to recognize the first faint whisper of any teaching that departs from your truth, your ways, or your will.

There is no such thing as a trouble-free life. There is only the promise of overcoming.

The promise—for everyone who believes—is to overcome.

In order for my love to grow deeper in the ways of the love of God, my perception, interpretation, and understanding of the truth must deepen.

The presence of Jesus, which is to say the presence of holy love, drives out fear by displacing it.

It is far more important to have clarity than certainty.

We all have a tendency to try to refashion God in an image of our own making, but the God of biblical revelation is the God whom we will someday face.

Faith is the mysterious convergence of crisis and process and demonstration built on three corresponding kinds of evidence: empirical, experiential, and experimental.