The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

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.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

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

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.