There are moments when we have to return to our roots.

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.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

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.