Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.