Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.