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.

We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.