As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.