All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

Homeless people bear God's image too.