Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.