Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

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

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.