Michael

“God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be."
--Brennan Manning”
― Brennan Manning

“Our post-Christian neighbors need to hear and see and taste and feel authentic Christianity, hospitality spreading from every Christian home that includes neighbors in prayer, food, friendship, childcare, dog walking, and all the daily matters upon which friendships are built.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Gospel Comes with a House Key The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World

“The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

“And here is the edge: Christians are called to live in the world but not live like the world. Christians are called to dine with sinners but not sin with sinners. But either way, when Christians throw their lot in with Jesus, we lose the rights to protect our own reputation.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Gospel Comes with a House Key The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World