“God reveals Himself in Jesus, but the revelation rarely conforms to our expectations. We have such stereotyped ideas of what God does and how God does it that we frequently misread the signposts…(Through John) we realize how often in our preoccupation with our self-importance we miss seeing what is going on right under our eyes…” - Eugene Peterson
“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather, it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.” — William Sloane...
“Suffering is not evidence of God’s absence, but of God’s presence. And it is in our acceptance of it, our participation in it, that...
“The Word become flesh and blood, and moved into the neighbourhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father,...
