We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.