A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.
Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.
It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.
How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.
The best guide in life is strength.
It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.