The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.