Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.