Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.