Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.