We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.