As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

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.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.