At the center of all of this is love. Not sentiment, not politeness, but agape -- the love of God, the love that gives without calculating return. Romans 13:10 draws the whole argument together by des...  Read More

The greater is almost always found in the small, unheralded, uncelebrated acts. The meal handed to a hungry neighbor. The bus ticket purchased for a young man who has never left his city. The early mo...  Read More

The ancient problem is that we are not naturally capable of the love that God requires of us. The ancient promise is that God never expected us to be. He sent the source of agape love himself, in the ...  Read More

Go and Live Likewise You are a child of God. That is your name. And with that name comes the ability -- the Spirit-empowered, lineage-tested, cross-confirmed ability -- to love this world the way it d...  Read More

Then there is justifying grace. The moment when we catch up with what is already true. When the gavel comes down. When we acknowledge the love that has been around us all along and receive it as our o...  Read More

Living With the Trinity: A Blanket, a Cape, and a Prayer ShawlThere is a question that sits quietly beneath much of the Christian life, one that most believers sense but rarely put into words: How exa...  Read More