I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

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?

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.