When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.