The cross is not where God inflicts violence on Jesus in order to vent his wrath; the cross is where God in Christ endures human inflicted violence and forgives it all. The cross is not where Jesus saves us from God, but where Jesus reveals God as Savior.
Every year, Holy Saturday hits me hard with the memory that the silence of God isn’t the absence of God.
The day will come...when people will once more be called to speak the word of God in such a way that the world is changed and renewed. It will be in a new language, perhaps quite nonreligious language, but liberating and redeeming like Jesus's language, so that people...
We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross.
To love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness -...
Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story—just like the typewriter was mine. from A Prayer Journal
Never think you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
Christianity is the only world religion that confesses a God who suffers. It is not that popular an idea, even among Christians. We prefer a God who prevents suffering, only that is not the God we have got. What the Cross teaches us is that God's power is not the...
Faith isn't a feeling. It's a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.
If God were small enough to be understood, God wouldn't be big enough to be worshipped.