Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.
When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.
We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.
The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.
I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every single one of them for coming. Which a lot of people take me up on! So I get to meet hundreds and hundreds of people every night, night after night.