The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth

Worship is ultimately "seeing life God's way.

Faith is not bereft of reason. F

Life requires some understanding, and the struggles we face need explanatory power. It is when we get the two subjects and their reasons for existence mixed up that we end up with verbal attacks and needless hostility.

Even though we did not author creation, we wish to author morality and take the reins of life.

That is why God's great desire is that we see our hearts before Him as He does, recognizing that we are not qualified to make moral judgments apart from Him. Like Job, when we come to Him as Creator and Designer, Revealer and Comforter, Mediator and Savior, we find that He is also the Strengthener and Restorer. On the basis of what we know, we can trust His character for what we do not know.

Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth.

But He did say, in effect, that if you test His claims by the same measure that you legitimately substantiate other facts, you will find HIm and His teaching thoroughly trustworthy.

But certainly, to turn to God when all your earthly needs are already met is to express in no certain terms that faith in God is to trust Him even when other supports are within reach.

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?

Confess the truth until it moves from head to heart.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.