Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.