I do not believe God is responsible for my sins, some people may. But I believe that my own weaknesses are father-filtered and just as much as God touched Jacob's hip and he walked with a limb the rest of his life, that I have certain emotional weaknesses that are there to keep me dependent on God.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.