All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.