The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.