If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.