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

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.