Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).