How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

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