Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn’t life after death – it’s life after life after death.

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.