God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.