Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.