In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.