Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.