It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith--the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching fo...
Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study of holy things, white-hot devotion to Jesus Christ, utter indif...
And now let us listen to the groans of Frederick Douglass, feel the lash with Amy, endure the satire of Du Bois, and measure the wrath of Malcolm X; let us contemplate the pathos of black childhood an...
All things bright and beautiful,All creatures great and small,All things wise and wonderful,The Lord God made them all.
For poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible -...
When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.
The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, What is permissible?—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t...
The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.
The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.
The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature
The Roman Emperor Julian, writing in the fourth century, regretted the progress of Christianity because it pulled people away from the Roman gods. He said, 'Atheism [I.e. the Christian faith!] has bee...
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more...
Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator so completely that the great themes of majesty and nobility and...
My biggest concern about the effects of the prosperity movement is that it diminishes Christ by making him less central and less satisfying than his gifts.
Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God.