Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

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

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.