By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

Release what is good.

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

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.

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.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.