When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.