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.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.