When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

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.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.