If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.