Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.