Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.

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.

Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?