To paraphrase Paul, God often uses...

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

- Mark Galli

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As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

- Mark Galli

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

- Mark Galli

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

- Mark Galli

God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.

- Mark Galli

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom," says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most faithfully obedient, when instead of trying to manipulate people into faith, we simply live in that freedom and let the Spirit do the work of transformation.

- Mark Galli

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs.

- Mark Galli

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