If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
You become like what you worship
True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.
I never know how much of what I say is true.