When everybody thinks you are nuts you finally just give in to their pressure and actually go nuts. - Donald Miller

It took me a while to realize that these stories, while often used with children, are not at all children's stories. I think the devil has tricked us into thinking so much of biblical theology is a story fit for kids. How did we come to think the story of Noah's ark is appropriate for children? Can you imagine a children's book about Noah's ark complete with paintings of people gasping in gallons of water, mothers grasping their children while their bodies go flying down white-rapid rivers, the children's tiny heads being bashed against rocks or hung up in fallen trees? I don't think a children's book like that would sell many copies.

It was the affection of Christ, not the brutality of a town, that healed Zacchaeus.

Worship is not just something we feel, it is something we sweat.