On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

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

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.