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"But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength."
"While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place."
"The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person."
"To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right."
"The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness."
"If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just."
"The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ."
"We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream."
"We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order."
"Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne.""
"Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious."
"Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross."
"God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it."
"Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them."
"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all."
"Prayer turns theology into experience."
"Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first."
"If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere."
"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."
"Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one."