Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry

God does what only God can do: make a way out of no way, something from nothing, life from death.

In everything that makes a human community human, Israel’s election as God’s people should shine in their lives like neon lights.

You’ll find reference to these all over the New Testament, on the lips of Jesus and the apostles. So much so that C. S. Lewis calls the New Testament but “a tissue of quotations” from the Old Testament. Reading the latter, you realize “how constantly Our Lord repeated, reinforced, continued, refined, and sublimated” what came before him, and “how v

I want you to catch a glimpse of why God called Abraham. He was starting a family. This family would be different from other families. It would be a family founded on knowing and loving God. With God at the head of this family, other families might take notice. They might peak over the fence, wondering what life was like inside the house. They migh

God, we may say, sings us into being. He breathes forth a poem, and the poem is us: galaxies, planets, molecules, continents, animals, people. It is a beautiful poem, a glorious song, and somehow we are alive and in the middle of it.

Sin is a turning away from God; it is missing the mark of giving God what God is due—namely, the whole of ourselves.

You exist because God made you, and God made you because he loves you.

But if we unclench our fists, if we let go of our lives, if we confess that we are not our own, that we need and depend on God for life and for every other good thing—then, Jesus says, we will keep our lives, not only in this world but in the world to come.

Holiness is the number one job description for Abraham’s children. The people of God must be holy, as the God whose people they are is holy. If they’re not holy, then what makes them different from any other people? To be holy is to be set apart. It means to be other, different, distinct, unlike the rest. God is holy because there is no one and not