Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

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.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.