I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross