Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

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

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

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.