God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

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

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.