As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

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

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.