Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

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