It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.