If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

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