The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

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

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.

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

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.