Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

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

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.