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.

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.