Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.

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.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.