We Cannot Be Too Careful About The

It Is Not Easy To Convey A Sense Of Wonder, Let Alone Resurrection Wonder, To Another. It’s The Very Nature Of Wonder To Catch Us Off Guard, To Circumvent Expectations And Assumptions. Wonder Can’t Be Packaged, And It Can’t Be Worked Up. It Requires Some Sense Of Being There And Some Sense Of Engagement.

No Life Of Faith Can Be Lived Privately. There Must Be Overflow Into The Lives Of Others.

If You Don't Take A Sabbath, Something Is Wrong. You're Doing Too Much, You're Being Too Much In Charge. You've Got To Quit, One Day A Week, And Just Watch What God Is Doing When You're Not Doing Anything.

Pity Is One Of The Noblest Emotions Available To Human Beings; Self-pity Is Possibly The Most Ignoble . . . . [it] Is An Incapacity, A Crippling Emotional Disease That Severely Distorts Our Perception Of Reality . . . A Narcotic That Leaves Its Addicts Wasted And Derelict.

Classically, There Are Three Ways In Which Humans Try To Find Transcendence--religious Meaning--apart From God As Revealed Through The Cross Of Jesus: Through The Ecstasy Of Alcohol And Drugs, Through The Ecstasy Of Recreational Sex, Through The Ecstasy Of Crowds. Church Leaders Frequently Warn Against The Drugs And The Sex, But At Least, In America, Almost Never Against The Crowds.