The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

I think that grace and love always rattle people.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.