Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.