Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

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

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.