The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

More data is not always the answer.

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.