Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them..

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

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….

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….

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

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers..

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in..

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invit….

Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best def….

Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to….

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesu….

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….

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian..

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….

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore..

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it..

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

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all….

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things..

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..

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..