Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

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

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.