Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

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.