Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

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

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.