We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we are welcomed into intimate personal communion with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the creator, the sovereign, the Savior. We, as unholy as we are, are told to go with confidence into his holy presence.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.