It is not enough for us to read this portion of the Bible and picture the Apostles Paul and Peter along with the church simply doing their best to be nice people. These letters reveal the subversive nature of God's kingdom at work among the empires of humanity. God set in motion a rebellion against the rebellions of men.

Scripture teaches us to contend for the faith (Jude 3) and contextualize to culture (1 Cor. 9:22-23).

No longer representative of the dominant culture, Christians need to rethink the way we understand cultural engagement, mission, and evangelism in a newly post-Christian society.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

American by Birth. Rebel by Choice.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

All that is comes from the mind; it is based on the mind, it is fashioned by the mind.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.