Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.