In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.

We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.