The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

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

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.