No one has the last word other than God.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.