Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.