Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.