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

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.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.