For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

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.'

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.