Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near