If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.