The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...

The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.