The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

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

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.