The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.