No Death. This accounts for Jesus' numerous indications that, for the godly, death is nothing. Have no fear of those who can only kill the body, he says (Matt. 10:28). We will not even experience death (John 8:51-52) and will, in fact, not die (John 11:26)...Such is the understanding of the New Testament as a whole. Those who live in reliance upon the word and person of Jesus, and know by experience the reality of his kingdom, are always better off "dead," from the personal point of view...we live in the knowledge that, as Paul elsewhere says, "Jesus the Anointed has abolished death and has, through the gospel, made life and immortality obvious." (2 Tim 1:10) --- Dallas Willard author of The Divine Conspiracy (pp. 393-394)

"Keep eternity before the children." –-- Dallas Willard's mother

A Christian teaching from the first century, (40-60 AD) says: "You shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born." --- The Didache (2:2).

The Work of the Spirit. Faith in the Spirit's power. Some of us are not leading holy lives for the simple reason that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. No man ever cries aloud for deliverance who has not seen his own wretchedness. In other words, the only way to arrive at faith in the power of the Holy Spirit is along the road of self-despair. --- John R.W. Stott

The Boston attacks once again demonstrated to relatively comfortable Americans what many throughout the world already experience on a daily basis: that we live in a world that is full of great evil. Evil that is a lot closer than we would like to think. Evil that can in one instant, without warning, tear open the beautiful, divine-image-bearing bodies of dozens of people in one of the "safest" neighborhoods of your own city. Evil that can prematurely, mercilessly, brutally end the lives of any of us, our family members, or our dear friends. Evil in such forms as the unknown terrorist plotting of neighbors who live just down the street. --- John Lomperis for IRD

Glorifying Christ. Christian experience is experience of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There really is no such thing as 'an experience of the Holy Spirit' from which the Father and the Son are excluded. In any case, the Holy Spirit is a reticent Spirit. He does not willingly draw attention to himself. Rather he prompts us to pray 'Abba. Father.' and thus witnesses to our filial relationship to God. And above all he glorifies Christ. He turns the bright beams of his searchlight upon the face of Jesus Christ. He is never more satisfied than when the believer is engrossed in Jesus Christ. --- John R. W. Stott

If chaplains and other personnel are censored from offering the full solace of the gospel, there is no religious freedom in the military. --- Lt. Gen. (ret.) William Boykin

The last vestiges of "repressive Christian morality" are being swept away by a tsunami of "progressive" dogma, its doctrines flowing from an absolute certainty that there are no absolutes - that all notions of truth and morality are purely subjective and, therefore, equally valid. The inevitable result is that all behaviors considered to be unnatural, perverse or otherwise corrupting vices for the past 2,000 years will be eventually redefined as moral. --- Timothy Philen

A missionary Spirit. Pentecost was a missionary event. It was the fulfillment of God's promise through the prophet Joel to pour out his Spirit 'on all people' (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17), irrespective of their race, sex, age or social standing. And the foreign languages which the disciples spoke (which seems clearly to have been what the 'tongues' were, at least on the day of Pentecost) were a dramatic sign of the international nature of the Messiah's kingdom which the Holy Spirit had come to establish. The rest of the Acts is a logical unfolding of that beginning. We watch enthralled as the missionary Spirit creates a missionary people and thrusts them out on their missionary task. --- John R.W. Stott

Make no mistake: The fundamental issue at stake in the same-sex marriage debate is not visitation rights, adoption rights, inheritance laws, or all the stuff of "civil unions." Those are derivative. It is fundamentally about being publicly recognized as fully human. --- Jonathan Leeman