When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.