But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.