Prayer is - keeping company with God..

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?.

The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ulti….

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet..

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God want….

Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular cul….

Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh….

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love..

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up..

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger..

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive..

We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteou….

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body be….

... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the….

I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a pe….

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice..

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves..

The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been ….

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it..

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow..

The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came ….