Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

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.