While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

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.