God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.