The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation, to manage it, to lovingly use it, to creatively order it... They are environmentalists. Being deeply connected with their environment is who they are. For them to be anything else or to deny their divine responsibility to care for all that God has made would be to deny something that is at the core of their existence. This is why litter and pollution are spiritual issues.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.