Favorite Quotes: "If you are not actively pursuing who God made you to be, then you are sinning and you need to repent of it." --Rob Bell "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind...this is the first and greatest commandment. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself." --Jesus "the worst won't get the best of us..." --Mutemath "Sometimes we don't need another chance to express how we feel or to ask someone to understand our situation. Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then lets see something to prove it." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Following the Messiah who is different to what we imagined is always demanding; but this is the only way to the kingdom of God." --N. T. Wright "It is at least thinkable that happiness characterized by satiation is not the same as the joy of freedom. It is evident that immunity to any transcendent voice and disregard of neighbor leads finally to the disappearance of passion. And where passion disappears there will not be any serious humanizing energy." --Walter Brueggemann "We too in our world have discovered so much, learned so much, invented so much, and yet are still without power to do many of the things that really matter. We have invented wonderful machines for making war, but nobody yet has found one that will make peace. We can put a man on the moon, but we can't put food into hungry stomachs. We can listen to the songs the whales sing on the ocean floor, but we can't hear the crying of human souls in the next street." --N. T. Wright