People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.