Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

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.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

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.

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.