Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

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

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

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

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.

All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.