God is the ultimate judge of hypocrisy in the church, I decided; I would leave such judgment in God’s capable hands. I began to relax and grow softer, more forgiving of others. After all, who has a pe...
God does some of God’s best work with people who are truly, seriously lost.
For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.
Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering,
Eugene Peterson hace un contraste entre Agustín y Pelagio, dos teólogos del siglo IV opuestos entre sí. Pelagio era educado, cortés, convincente y le caía bien a todo el mundo. Agustín había derrochad...
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Can we live now as if God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The
• You don’t listen to me. • You judge me. • Your faith confuses me. • You talk about what’s wrong instead of making it right. Reviewing these complaints, it occurs to me that Christians fail to commun...
¿Hay siempre fe cuando se produce un gran número de milagros?
You cannot earn God’s acceptance by climbing; you must receive it as a gift.
When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, What is there left in the world for original dissertation research? Albert Einstein replied, Find out about prayer. Somebody must find out about prayer.
We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines throug...
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.
Those who have known pain profoundly are the ones most wary of uttering the clichés about suffering. Experience with the mystery takes one beyond the realm of ideas and produces finally a muteness or...
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who hav...
The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.
The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. T...
Sometimes the only meaning we can offer a suffering person is the assurance that their suffering, which has no apparent meaning for them, has a meaning for us.