It’s important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.
If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere.
Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.
I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ – therefore I obey.
Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.
If you don’t love the poor, you don’t know what God’s done for you.
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
There is no sin that is a match for God’s grace.
Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.
It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.
Adam wasn’t lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.