The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.