Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

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

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.