The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.