Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

If you are a child of God, you don't lose your status if you have a bad week.

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

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

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus' love, not Jesus' love by my circumstances.

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

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.