Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

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

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

I am God and I am coming to find you.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.