The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

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.

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

The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.