Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

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

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.