Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

What you treasure will ultimately require you die for it, Jesus is the only treasure that died for you.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.