The average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.
We pray because we can’t help it. The
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...
Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.
Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rat...
Does prayer change God or change me?
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarde...
ادركت اني كنت آتي إلى الله مثل شخص مريض كما لو كان الخالق يدير مكتبا للشكاوي كنت اتألم وأعاني المآسي والأمراض والمظالم بينما كنت اتغاضي طوال الوقت عن الأمور الصالحة الكثيرة التي تحيط بي في العالم
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.
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.
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back. The Bible tells of flawed people -- people just like me -- who make s...
Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don’t know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently,...
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counter-culture of ordinary pilgrims who insist on living a different way. We can make the world stop and think before pulling a trigger, or...
One prominent spiritual leader insists, The only way to have a genuine spiritual revival is to have legislative reform. Could he have that backwards?
Moreover, conservative Christians have come to accept that Jesus’ gospel applies to the whole person and not just the soul. Didn’t Jesus inaugurate his own ministry with a declaration of good news for...
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.