Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to accomplish just that. They were dispensing grace to the broader world, and in the process their spirit helped change a nation, saving it from the revolutionary chaos that had spread across Europe.

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.