As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

You become like what you worship

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.