Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.