Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

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

A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

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.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.