Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

I am God and I am coming to find you.

A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.