Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.