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

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

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 I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

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

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.