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Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

What you treasure will ultimately require you die for it, Jesus is the only treasure that died for you.

The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but "What has Jesus done for you?"

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

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