Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

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"