The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.