Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

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

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.