Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.