God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

Love one another strenuously because it's hard.

God is love so all God does is loving.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.