Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

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

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.

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.