Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.