The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

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.

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?