Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.