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.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.