Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.