Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it.
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...
…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,...
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
Suffering can serve as instruments to teach us the value of dependence, and unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace. The apostle Paul gave the Corinthians an
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.
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.
When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it.
We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.
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...
The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.
Somehow we need to reclaim the goodnewsness of the gospel,
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?
Jesus used small things to describe his kingdom: a sprinkling of yeast that causes the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt that preserves a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden that grows int...
I’m convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved.
Indeed,wrote C. S. Lewis142, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too s...
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
I get mailings from Amnesty International, and as I look at their photos of men and women who have been beaten and cattle-prodded and jabbed and spit on and electrocuted, I ask myself, What kind of hu...
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...