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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...
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...
When in doubt, assume that they’re seeing something that you aren’t.
We are not only working on our game, we are working on ourselves.
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.
If your faith is threatened by something that’s true, then it wasn’t much of a faith to begin with, was it?
Boredom, cynicism, and despair are spiritual diseases because they disconnect us from the most primal truth about ourselves - that we are here.
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...
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.
We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don’t know about someone else.
This participation is important, because Jesus and the prophets lived with an awareness that God has been looking for partners since the beginning, people who will take seriously their divine responsi...
This is a book about seeing, about becoming more and more alive and aware, orienting ourselves around the God who I believe is the ground of our being, the electricity that lights up the whole house,...
Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y.Success can never get eno...
Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting 'the gospel' is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn't safe, loving, or good. It doesn't make sense, it can't be reconciled, and s...
May you see drops like stars.
It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime...
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.
Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.