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

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

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.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

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.