Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness..

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring..

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly..

Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping ins….

Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing ….

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal..

Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninv….

Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because w….

Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surpris….

Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he….

Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang f….

Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of o….

Jesus cares more about desire than about competence.

Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a vo….

Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Gen….

Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding thr….

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter..

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to r….

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become ….

I want a lifetime of holy moments. Every day I want to be in dangerous proximity to Jesus. I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled….

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God is preposterous enough t….