Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.