The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists f….

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder..

Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea..

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross..

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth..

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, wr….

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God..

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet..

True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark..

Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to ….

Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn'….

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relation….

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, option….

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the charact….

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the ….

The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and wo….

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heav….

If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look a….

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight pr….

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God..

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity..