The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.