The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but "What has Jesus done for you?"

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.