Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.