The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive..

One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Bibli….

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive..

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us..

Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deli….

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagiu….

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairne….

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven..

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him..

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately….

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?.

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through..

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will..

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are..

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to ….

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross..

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christ….

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the m….

I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible th….

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument..