A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

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.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

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