Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.
Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.