A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.
We pray because we can’t help it. The
Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I best learn about my own need for faith during its absence. God's invisibility guarantees I will expe...
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
Homeless people bear God's image too.
God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization ─ Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professiona...
Does prayer change God or change me?
All of us in the church need grace-healed eyes to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above....
Sinners.
No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.
Prayer incorporates the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of God’s grace.
Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death. Until that day arrives, the case against God must rely on incomplete evidence. We canno...
Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church c...
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
Somehow we need to reclaim the goodnewsness of the gospel,
When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it.
Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.