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

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

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

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.