Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

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

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

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

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it