What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
Jesus is supracultural. He is present within all cultures, and yet outside of all cultures. He is for all people, and yet he refuses to be co-opted or owned by any one culture. That includes any Chris...
If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus
God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.
Boredom, cynicism, and despair are spiritual diseases because they disconnect us from the most primal truth about ourselves - that we are here.
At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be.
As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in...
Why didn’t they just skip the whole sacrificial system all together? That would have been amazing. Just scrap the whole thing. Announce that the final sacrifice has been offered and there’s no more ne...
Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.
When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speak...
When people stepped forward and said, You have heard it interpreted this way, but I tell you it really means this, it was progressive for their day. They were making new claims about what it means to...
We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don’t know about someone else.
Jesus did not use hell to try and compel heathens and pagans to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences o...
How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to s...
When you get married you’re starting a conversation that never ends,
When in doubt, assume that they’re seeing something that you aren’t.
To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it s...
To make the cross of Jesus just about human salvation is to miss that God is interested in the saving of everything. Every star and rock and bird. All things.