Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

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.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

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.