Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

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

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God. You can scare people into coming to your church, you can scare people into trying to be good, you can scare people into giving money, you can even scare them into walking down an aisle and praying a certain prayer, but you cannot scare people into loving God. You just can’t do it.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

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.