We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

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.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

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