When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

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

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?