If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

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

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.