The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.