The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

God saves, not God empathizes, cares, listens, helps, assists, or applauds.

If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.