The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

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.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.