Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

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