Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin to be clear.

Often when people are diagnosed with a life-changing medical condition, they feel overwhelmed. They feel choked by darkness and hopelessness. Those are times when answers simply do not suffice. That's because answers don't always reach the problem where it hurts: in the gut and in the heart.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.