I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
I feel called to minister to telephone marketers. You know, the kind who call at inconvenient hours and deliver their spiel before you can say a word. Immediately I flashed back to the times I have re...
Herein lies the most solemn challenge facing Christians who want to communicate their faith: if we do not live in a way that draws others to the faith rather than repels them, none of our words will m...
Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, say something similar: God has a plan to fight injustice, and that plan is us — his people. There is no Plan B.
For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.
Dorothy Day used to say that we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn’t make much sense if the gospel were not true.
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
At first glance legalism seems hard, but actually freedom in Christ is the harder way. It is relatively easy not to murder, hard to reach out in love; easy to avoid a neighbor’s bed, hard to keep a ma...
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
¿Hay siempre fe cuando se produce un gran número de milagros?
We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. And he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he n...
Sinners.
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it. ANNIE DILLARD
We decided to attend to our community instead of asking our community to attend the church. His staff started showing up at local community events such as sports contests and town hall meetings. They...
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.
The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure,
The poor, the hungry, the mourners, and the oppressed truly are blessed. Not because of their miserable states, of course—Jesus spent much of his life trying to remedy those miseries. Rather, they are...