We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

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.