There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.