Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

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.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.