The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.