[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.