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

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.

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