Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty of choice. And then you want that faculty governed by the truth of God and the Spirit of God.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.