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You become like what you worship
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.
Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.
Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.
If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.
First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.
God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.
The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.
Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.
What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.
All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.
I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.
The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.
Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.
Fortunately, Paul is much more interesting than most of his interpreters, myself included.
Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.
The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved
The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’
I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.