Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.