The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be able to pick us out of a crowd of other well-meaning organizations?

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church.

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

A heart full of love is worth more than a purse full of coins.

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Songwritng is what I do.

I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.