If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.