Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT..

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..

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….

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….

It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus ta….

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

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..

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….

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existenc….

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you e….

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desper….

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church..

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..

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift..

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

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God wh….

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment..

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….

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.

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….