If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.