We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.