At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
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
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.
Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.
My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out...
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.
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into
Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor becau...
From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.
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, I’ve concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
We respond to healing grace by giving it away.
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...
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 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...
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...