If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.