The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

Grace is power, not just pardon.

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.