The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.