The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

God's faithfulness means that God will always do what He said and fulfill what He has promised.

If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.

The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

We must create our own world.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.