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

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.