Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.