The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

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.

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.