If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.