Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him

Psa 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Heb 13:15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name

How can I as a sinful person have peace with a righteous God?

Jesus came and suffered and died and rose again from the dead to pay the price for our sins

How can I know that beyond the grave there will be life and joy and not a fearful prospect of judgment?

Hell - where the worm never dies, and the fire never goes out

Jesus spoke twice as much about hell as he did about heaven

Jesus is the only way to heaven

How can I have the deepest longings of my heart satisfied?

The appetites of our hearts were made for God and they will not be satisfied until we feast on fellowship with God

How can I know God personally?

The God who created the universe is unspeakably great

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us

God in the person of his Son has become flesh (human)

Jesus told Phillip, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father"

Jesus is God reaching out to us

Is there a power to love?

Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me

The disciples went from being a bunch of wimps in the Garden to some of the boldest people on earth and turned the world upside down