There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Where God is not glorified, that place is sick

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.