If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.