If we're not careful, people become resources instead of, well, people.

Our faithfulness doesn't know beforehand which tree will bear the most fruit.

I choose to stay with the Bible because I don't think it was given to make me comfortable.

Churches can get pretty good at looking alive.

Loving the truth means I want what is true even when it challenges what I believe.

The command to seek God is surrounded by the command to remember God.

The world hasn't stopped being wonderful just because we've stopped wondering.

We can have the right convictions and still make the wrong decisions.

If we're not careful, we let all our right religious things make our faith into a formula for getting the life we want.

The cross offers us a strange victory. Jesus wins by giving himself away.