When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.

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.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it..." The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.

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.