Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

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