The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it..

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace..

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view..

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not g….

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost..

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and ….

I would far rather convey grace than explain it..

Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty w….

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort..

We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between ou….

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love..

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us..

We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer….

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace..

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calva….

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish..

Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic….

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness..

Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of ….

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world..