The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.