Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.