We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.