What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

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

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.