Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.