The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

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.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.