Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.