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" I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally. "

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" Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death. "

" I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive. "

" Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. "

" One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness. "

" Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France. "

" Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. "

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" I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. "

" Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth. "

" Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. "

" The church is in the hope business. "

" Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. "

" Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. "

" Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all. "

" As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus. "

" Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. "

" I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism. "

" Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general. "

" Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. "

" In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison. "

" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "

" Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures. "

" Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush. "

" Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. "

" Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto. "

" I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul. "

" Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. "

" The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable. "

" There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly. "

" To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me. "