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

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.