Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.