Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

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

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

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

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

What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?