Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

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

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

I have met countless people who call themselves Christians who don't appear to have any living breathing vibrant connection with the resurrected Christ and I've met countless people from every religious background including atheists that tell me of their very personal and real experiences of the living Christ. I don't have people asking me why they should believe something - that's starting off on the wrong foot to say the least.

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.