Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.

If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

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.

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