The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed..

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track..

God loves us and seeks our redemption, at times through angels..

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus..

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church.

God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's cov….

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped..

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it..

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God..

Love one another strenuously because it's hard..

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's….

God is love so all God does is loving..

Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. Its that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesu….

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person..

Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read ou….

... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings..

The idea that relationships are not a strategy is potent; and the sad commentary proceeds to say that often relationships are seen as a strategy, a m….

Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before ou….

God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading ….

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By ki….

I've never spoken with an angel, though one time I felt the awesome weight and glory of God's presence in an angel in my bedroom as I kneeled in pray….