Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

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.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.