Salvation is uniting ourselves to Jesus, who has already united himself with us.

I am overwhelmed and heartbroken by the war in Syria, by mass shootings, by systemic racism, by our broken politics, by my generation abandoning religion wholesale, and by so many other national and world problems that I feel powerless confronting. I am overwhelmed and I am heartbroken, and I can see only one solution to all of this: Jesus.

Everything will end, and in the end there will only be God, and it is God that will finally provide, in the end, our ultimate happiness and fulfillment.

The difference between Martha and Mary is not that one worked and one did not, but that Martha received Jesus as a guest, while Mary received him as a teacher.