God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
The average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.
We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conve...
We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
A sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.
We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all thi...
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.
Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson performed a rather bizarre experiment on ants that may supplement Paul’s illustration (Rom 6:1-14). After noticing that it took ants a few days to recognize one of t...
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes – well,...
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Je...