Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

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.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.