We live and die; Christ died and lived!

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.