Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.