Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.