All life-changing love is inconvenient.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

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

Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.