This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

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

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.