Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.