The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.