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

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.