Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

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

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.