The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.

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

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.