The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.