If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.