Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.