Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.