Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.