The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...

Make haste slowly.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.