The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.

Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.