One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.