We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.