If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.