The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.

Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.