Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.

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