If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

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.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

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