Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.