The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.