The law did not encourage obedience, rather it magnified disobedience. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
The late Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical American author, wrote: For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the beatitudes. But—often with tears in their eyes—they demand that the...
The gospel presents both high ideals and all-encompassing grace. Very often, however, the church tilts one direction or the other. Either it lowers the ideals, adjusting moral standards downward, soft...
The female runner still lags behind the male, and blame rests on the pelvis. The projections on the man’s pelvis allow for more powerful muscles, but a woman equipped with them could not bear a child....
The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us...
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.
Somehow, that faith was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.
Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They m...
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
Prosperity may dilute prayer too. In my travels I have noticed that Christians in developing countries spend less time pondering the effectiveness of prayer and more time actually praying. The
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God’s point of view.
Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
Perhaps the reason politics has proved such a snare for the church is that power rarely coexists with love. People in power draw up lists of friends and enemies, then reward their friends and punish t...
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
Most people I meet assume that Christian means very conservative, entrenched in their thinking, antigay, antichoice, angry, violent, illogical, empire builders; they want to convert everyone, and they...
Los israelitas dieron amplias pruebas de que podemos llegar a desear las señales sin desear en realidad a Dios.
Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.
If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!