If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.