You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

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?

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.