The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.