I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

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.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.