The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.