The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.
The first word about you is that you received this life...
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.
There are moments when we have to return to our roots.
We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’
Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God’s ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.
I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God’s and everything in it...
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.
Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.
We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we’ll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
The joy is in the creation. So I’ve never had a target audience, it’s always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.