Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.