Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.