Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Above all, I am a Christian.  I believe in God who made Himself known to us in the Person of Jesus Christ.  Furthermore, I believe that Christ died to pay the price for my sin.  Therefore, I am now enabled to live the way God wants me to live.  While many people don't think much about religion, I happen to enjoy open dialogue over spiritual matters.  So if you're interested feel free to ask me more about what and why I believe.

Compelling Thoughts:

• The best that we could ever hope for is that God exists and that we are loved by Him.  The alternatives are hopeless.  The absence of God means nothing in life or death really matters.  Also being God's enemy would be eternally devastating. - Gene Hong

• My desire for happiness and God's desire for His glory must be one.  God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him! - John Piper's "Desiring God"

• For God to be God, He must be the most desirable of all and should demand our ultimate affection.  Only God is worthy of such attention.  To deny Him would be to make two fatal errors:  1) to forfeit unimaginable joy and 2) to offend the Almighty.  Therefore this rejection of God is insane.  Jeremiah affirms this when he writes, "Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror," declares the LORD. "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water (Jer. 2:12-13)." - John Piper