The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are! This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

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