Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
Frederick Buechner writes, Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be...
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...
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
Homeless people bear God's image too.
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.
The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.
The gospel of grace begins and ends with forgiveness. And people write songs with titles like Amazing Grace for one reason: grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains...
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. —Mahatma Gandhi
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self. You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the...
Over time Christians learned that the faith grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with h...
Lest I sound like a cranky moralist, I should say that to me the real question is not why modern secularists oppose traditional morality; it is on what basis they defend any morality.
Jesus says in effect, 'Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed my most valuable possession, which I h...
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiv...
Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of ice skates, knowing that he may fall, is a very different matter from knocking him d...
I know Christians who yearn for God's older style of a power-worker who topples pharaohs, flattens Jericho's walls, and scorches the priests of Baal. I do not. I believe the kingdom now advances throu...