You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.

We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.

Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.