And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell ea….

Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most….

You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you….

The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the ….

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments..

For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one..

I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What d….

And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, wh….

So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling….

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us..

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it..

I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman mil….

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus..

A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar..

At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and lo….

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuter….

I think that at the core of faith is trust..

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that mome….

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover….

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth..

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are..