As things are brought back under Christ’s rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.
Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said.
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.
Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.
The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.
The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.
You are under-qualified for the job of God.
Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day.
When Jesus got the big questions, he didn’t present arguments. He presented himself.