If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

I think that grace and love always rattle people.

For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.