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

We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

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

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.