Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself

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

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

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.

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