Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

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

When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.