When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

We don't have to be brilliant.

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.