Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love..

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion..

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward..

Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way tr….

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers..

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot..

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expectin….

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence..

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church..

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could no….

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to….

I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temp….

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted ….

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator..

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood..

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace..

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love..

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny..

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us..

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse..

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we….