The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.