Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.

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

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.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.