“The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.”

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

God made night, But man made darkness.

That’s what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

Growth comes from chaos, not order.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.