It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise..

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the….

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol..

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is….

The courageous have fears that cowards never know..

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits nec….

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture..

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit..

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this wo….

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one'….

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came t….

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy..

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live..

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhel….

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires..

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usu….

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way..

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what….

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is….

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God do….

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is..