“we can be assured of our salvation not because of how good we are trying to be towards God and the things of God, but because of how good God truly has been, is, and always will be towards us”

“salvation is not just something we receive in Jesus Christ, salvation is also something we are now meant to live in Jesus Christ”

“Hope is what makes life worth living.”

“For us, in this day and in this place, perhaps the greatest challenge we face comes not from the world’s hostility to Christ, but from our own failure to perceive and to pursue the distinction between being in the world, but not of the world.”