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...
If God’s kingdom had a No Oddballs Allowed sign posted, none of us could get in.
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of
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...
Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.
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
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...
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.
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...
Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite G...
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a dr...
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.