True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.