People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

Release what is good.

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

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.