(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood, ' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Perhaps being a Christian isn’t about experiencing the kingdom of heaven someday but about experiencing the kingdom of heaven every day.

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.

To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.

all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.