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

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.