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

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.