To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.