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.

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

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.

The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

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.