Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, "How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday."

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.