This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.

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