Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

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

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.