The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
