When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

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

As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.

Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.