Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

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.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.