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...
Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the...
Los israelitas dieron amplias pruebas de que podemos llegar a desear las señales sin desear en realidad a Dios.
It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.
It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the...
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!
I leave in God’s hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.
I have written about the toxic church I grew up in: a legalistic, angry, racist church in the South. I joke about being in recovery from that church, learning along the way that much presented as abso...
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.
God does not keep his people. He loves us, gives himself to us, and eagerly awaits our free response. God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are com...
Ariel Durant, There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. The Durants add a foreboding remark, The greate...
A wise sufferer will look not inward, but outward. There is no more effective healer than a wounded healer, and in the process the wounded healer’s own scars may fade away.
Grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less. It means that I, even I who deserve the opposite, am invited to take my place at the tabl...
Why value humility in our approach to God? Because it accurately reflects the truth. Most of what I am — my nationality and mother tongue, my race, my looks and body shape, my intelligence, the centur...
Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job—binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry—I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hur...
We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not What did I get out of it? but rather Was God pleased with what happened?
To judge God solely by the present world would be a tragic mistake. At one time, it may have been the best of all possible worlds, but surely it is not now. The Bible communicates no message with more...
The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.
The phrase the body of Christ, expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The
The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.