The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.