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

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.