The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.