Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

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

If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.