We believe what we do not completely understand or feel. Because of this, we are tempted to establish more "certain" criteria to evaluate our spiritual state. Through a preoccupation with legalism, mysticism, or ascetism, we lose focus on Christ... and become proud, self-centered, and exclusive. »more

New media offers real advantages, but always at a price, for "media aren't just channels of information... they also shape the process of thought" (6). And what is the process of thought the internet rewards? The internet rewards swift skimming and undermines deep concentration and contemplation. »more

All the ordinary places and events of our lives hold the potential to become houses of God, gateways of heaven. Every moment holds the possibility of revealing the hidden God in our midst. The reason knowing God does not consist of an endless stream of ecstatic and extraordinary experiences is because God wants us to learn to see him in the ordinary! »more

We must not only view them from the perspective of his Jewish heritage, but also from the perspective of his Greco-Roman setting. When we do this, we discover that many of the passages that moderns react against as narrow and intolerant are really, in Paul's Greco-Roman setting, progressive and revolutionary. »more