When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

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.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.

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.