Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.