We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.

Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.