By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.

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.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.