So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere?When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose?

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology