We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love.
03316 – Responding to Outrageous Pain
read more
02812 – Many Churches are Like Submarines
Many churches are like submarines. They close the hatch on the outside world and submerge themselves in an ocean of apathy. Before long, they’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
02726 – Enough?
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
02614 – Keep On Trying!
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
02605 – Disabled Bodies–Gift from God
[W]e ought to embrace disabled bodies as a gift from God that both reveals divine action in the world and expands the fullness of image-bearing creation. from My Disabled Body Proclaims the Gospel
02581 – What God Can Do with Dust
So let us be markednot for sorrow.And let us be markednot for shame.Let us be marked not for false humilityor for thinkingwe are lessthan we are but for claimingwhat God can dowithin the dust,within the dirt,within the stuffof which the worldis made,and the stars that...
02574 – Be Open to the Light
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
02543 – Brilliance without Conscience?
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or...
02513 – Do We “Get It”?
The absolute religious genius of Jesus is that he utterly refuses all debt codes, purity codes, religious quarantines, and the searching for sinners. He refuses the very starting point of historic religions. He refuses to divide the world into the pure and the impure,...
02506 – Live Life in Radical Amazement
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement, [to] get up every morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.