Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.