Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions..

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain..

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others..

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives..

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus..

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims..

The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unben….

Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t fee….

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship..

The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us..

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and un….

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored..

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of….

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just….

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves..

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is t….

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants….

The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. Th….

The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family ….

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going..