My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.

At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.

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.

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