Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

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

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.