If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.