If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.