There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

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

God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?