He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.

There's no limit to God's love.

When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.