One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

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.

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.