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 ….

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….

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible..

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

Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'.

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

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

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 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….

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

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….

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….

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

Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved.

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….

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'….

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

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

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

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

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