There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together.

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.