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

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temptation." The Bible challenges us to look upward, not inward, for counsel at moments of crisis.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

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