In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
I grew up with the strong impression that a person became spiritual by attending to these gray-area rules. For the life of me, I could not figure out much difference between the dispensations of Law a...
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite G...
Does prayer change God or change me?
As the priest in Harold Frederic’s novel The Damnation of Theron Ware cynically concludes, There must always be a church. If one did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it. It is needed, first...
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out...
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Je...
If God’s kingdom had a No Oddballs Allowed sign posted, none of us could get in.
He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.
Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.
Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor becau...
Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rat...
God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
G. K. Chesterton once wrote, All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.
Faith, I’ve concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.