Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange

Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.