How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.