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.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.