I am God and I am coming to find you.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.