The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.