This is how you remember God: you bless those who need it the most in the same way that God blessed you when you needed it the most.
Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.
Grace is when you aren’t striving or controlling or trying to change or manipulate or make something happen. Grace is when you find yourself carried along, when all that’s left to do is receive. Grace...
In one of the accounts of Jesus’s death we read that the curtain in the temple of God—the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God’s presence—ripped.One New Testament writer said that this...
We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
It is possible for music to be labeled Christian and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could be recycled cliches. That Christian band could actually be giving Jes...
It is as if the smallest amount of light is infinitely more powerful than massive amounts of dark.
For a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere
What the gospel does is confront our version of our story with God’s version of our story. It is a brutally honest, exuberantly liberating story, and it is good news. It begins with the sure and certa...
Everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
All of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine.
God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2). So does God get what God wants?
What's disturbing, then, is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about hell here and now. As a Christian I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth: poverty, injus...
If you feel stuck in your life, like it’s passing you by, like there’s something way better for you somewhere out there and you’re missing it, try this—try throwing yourself into the small things and...
Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.
The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive military superpowers who had conquered them: The Egyptians, the Persians...
Great artists know that it isn’t just about what you add; sometimes the most important work is knowing what to take away. Removing clutter, excess, all the superfluous elements—and finding out in the...
One of the great theologians of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: When everything gets answered, it’s fake. The mystery is the truth.21
But this lawyer, he can’t even answer Jesus’s question by saying the name. He simply replies the one . . . That’s your neighbor. That’s who you’re called to love. That’s where the eternal life is foun...
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