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.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.