How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

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