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

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.