Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

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.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.