Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

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.

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.