God is love so all God does is loving.

The idea that relationships are not a strategy is potent; and the sad commentary proceeds to say that often relationships are seen as a strategy, a means to accomplish great things - except love and relationship are not what is really wanted. We want to appear relational so people will like what we have to offer. It's the difference between wanting a good marriage and loving the person you married.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

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.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.