As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

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.

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

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.