If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

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

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.