This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.

The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.