The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.

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

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less