What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

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.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.