If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

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.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.