Do The Truth Quietly Without Display.

The Gospel Of Grace Nullifies Our Adulation Of Televangelists, Charismatic Superstars, And Local Church Heroes. It Obliterates The Two-class Citizenship Theory Operative In Many American Churches. For Grace Proclaims The Awesome Truth That All Is Gift. All That Is Good Is Ours, Not By Right, But By The Sheer Bounty Of A Gracious God.

Craving Clarity, We Attempt To Eliminate The Risk Of Trusting God. Fear Of The Unknown Path Stretching Ahead Of Us Destroys Childlike Trust In The Father's Active Goodness And Unrestricted Love.

We Are Enveloped In Peace, Whether Or Not We Feel Ourselves To Be At Peace. By That I Mean The Peace That Passes Understanding Is Not A Subjective Sensation Of Peace; If We Are In Christ, We Are In Peace Even When We Feel No Peace.

I Am Deeply Distressed By What I Only Can Call In Our Christian Culture The Idolatry Of The Scriptures. For Many Christians, The Bible Is Not A Pointer To God But God Himself... God Cannot Be Confined Within The Covers Of A Leather-bound Book. I Develop A Nasty Rash Around People Who Speak As If Mere Scrutiny Of Its Pages Will Reveal Precisely How God Thinks And Precisely What God Wants.

A Man Doesn't Grow Old Because He Has Lived A Certain Number Of Years. A Man Grows Old When He Deserts His Ideal. The Years May Wrinkle His Skin, But Deserting His Ideal Wrinkles His Soul.