Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.