Grace - no one is keeping score!

Grace cannot prevail … until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Robert Farrar Capon

C.S. Lewis' reflections on Devotions

“I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

C.S. Lewis

Scandalous Grace

I love the scandalous grace Jesus sets forth in his provocative parable of the vineyard workers. Everybody got paid a day's wage. Everybody.

The vineyard owner was more interested in giving people what they need than paying people what they earned. God is like that. Jesus said so.

Brian Zahnd

For those who wonder if God the Father at the core is unpredictable

God is like Jesus.
God has always been like Jesus.
There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus.
We haven’t always known this—
But now we do.

Brian Zahnd

Faith and Acceptance

"Faith is not a gimmick we can use to ace somebody who's basically against us into being favorable to us. You have to grant me it's trust in a relationship with someone who's already accepted us. Okay?"

Robert Farrar Capon

Christ's Death on the Cross wasn’t to satisfy God but instead to change our minds about how we perceive Him

Christ is a divine offering to humankind, not a human offering to God. – Robert Hamerton-Kelly

Instead of us bringing a sacrifice to God to appease him, through the cross God brings a sacrifice to us to reconcile us. – Derek Flood