Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

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

The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.