The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

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.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.