But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.