Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

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

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.