If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.