Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.