God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

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

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.