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

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

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

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.