The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

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.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.