Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid..

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are..

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love..

When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pi….

Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics ha….

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love..

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution..

One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words….

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth..

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family..

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul..

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?.

Release what is good..

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace..

Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause.….

We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit t….

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry..

What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resiste….

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply..

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in ….

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda t….