Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.