The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

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

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 most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.