Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.