"Use your gift! All of us have different gifts that we are called to use, and that brings together that unity. When we have that unity of purpose, we come together to be one and build up the church, and bring glory to Jesus Christ."

"God loves us. He is Father, He is sovereign, but He loves us, and He is powerful enough to do something about it. He cares! The greatest thing in life is that you are loved, and that you know you are loved."

Because your steadfast love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

So I will bless you as long as I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands.

"Paul doesn't have a 'poor me' story. Rather. he thinks in the context of God. Here is someone who has found the secret, who is in on the mystery, who is passionate for the gospel."

"Our unity and identity is found in Christ. We are one in Christ Jesus. We have been brought together. Jesus Christ has brought down the dividing wall, stop rebuilding it."

"Our eternal life begins now. You who were dead, have been raised. Christianity is not a Do-It-Yourself Job, it is something Christ does in us."

"The Church is more than an institution. It is that radical relationship with the Living God who has shown Himself in Jesus Christ. Who has shown He is not an institution, but He is the center of the institution. We need that relationship."

"Standing at the cross brings together what Paul calls 'being in Christ'. That's the spot to stand to make sense of what God is doing and to experience what God is doing."

"We are agents of God's intended order. We are agents of the Kingdom of God. We are agents of His redemptive, restorative, re-conciliatory work on this planet."

"The Church is meant to be an illustration of what God wants to do with all of society".

"Very often Christians and non-Christians are in entrenched positions. They shoot their words every now and again at one another, but they never meet, they never speak, they never listen. I want to say this morning that we, as Church, are called to go into No-Man's-Land; to speak to the people around us, and get to know the people around us."