A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.