God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.

When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make.

The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves."