When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.