Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.