The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.