Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.