Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

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

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.