Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?