There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

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

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.