...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.