Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!

We need to make our faith our very own love story.

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.

I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.