As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

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