Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.

As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.