Kevin McGill

How can we worship a God that ordered the ethnic cleansing of the Canaanites? In this perspective piece, Kevin McGill shares 5 principles of interpretation to keep in mind as we wrestle with this topic.

Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.

Kevin McGill takes a look a familiar Bible story to illustrate how Jesus wanted His disciples to read between the lines and come up with a compassionate theology.

There is nothing you can do that will separate you from the love of God. If we make it primarily about what we must do, we lose the primacy of what God has done. Amazing grace isn't so amazing if ultimately, we have to work for it.

“There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her” (Luke 10:42).

“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing — that when we look for what’s best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something s...

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy" (Matt. 5:7).

"He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them, He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name" (John 1:11-12).

Recently, my family has been listening to some old cassette tapes from a program called “Your Story Hour,” by Aunt Sue and Uncle Dan. They were given to us as a gift. I ordered a portable cassette player from Amazon so we could play them.

You can safely assume that you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. - Anne Lamott