We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.

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

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.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross