The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity lies in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed.

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.