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.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.