“Persistent prayer keeps us intimately connected to God, which in turn keeps us intimately connected to His power and to His promises, which keeps us from losing heart in this world while we wait for the Kingdom to come.”

“The Kingdom of God is now, it’s already here – if we know what to look for, and if we know the One who is already our King.”

Faith is – relationship. Faith is simply a real, ongoing, ever-deepening relationship between Him and us.

Because Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, death need no longer scare us the way that it often does – for the grave can longer hold us and death can no longer end us – “We shall rise, we shall rise!”

“Let not your hearts be troubled? How, in a world like this, can our hearts be anything other than troubled?”

“the story ends, with Lazarus in heaven and the rich man in Hades – and justice seemingly done, the tables turned, and so forth.”