Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature but "up" to God, who consistently calls us forward to become the people we were designed to be. A confused world urgently needs a model of what that looks like. If Christians fail to provide that model, who will?

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

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.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

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.

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

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