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.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

I found that the death penalty  -  and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person  -  but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?