Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

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

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

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.