We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

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

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.