As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.