Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

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.

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.