We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequence….

When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppr….

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove..

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's br….

What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it..." The label….

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed ….

There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste an….

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bibl….

Christian' makes a poor adjective.

We embrace truth wherever we find it from whoever says it however we come across it. It's a big beautiful exotic heartbreaking mysterious world we li….

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs..

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone….

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. W….

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble..

What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now..

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life..

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God..

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start..

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship..

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges..

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm,….