Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.