I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.

I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

I've never been one to say I know exactly that we're in the last days, but there's some things happening these days, both good and bad, that make me wonder if we may be heading into the final generation. One of the good things that's happening is that little by little we're taking the gospel to the whole world. But at the same time there is this resistance.

God would rather give up His son..than give up on us