God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'