Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

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.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.