The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.