We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.