The failure to understand the infinite depth of the human soul is often why people who are married have affairs. They stop exploring the person they married. They find somebody who appears more intere...
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...
Some things that are labeled Christian aren’t true, and some things that aren’t labeled Christian are true. Some atheists say lots of things that are true, and some Christians are full of shit.
Selling your house, giving away possessions, working multiple jobs for a period of time, going back to school and moving in with friends or relatives, sharing a car with your partner and riding your b...
People deal with their shadow side in a number of ways, the most common way being to find outside enemies and point to them, demonizing them and blaming them for long lists of perceived evils. This st...
People aren’t static; they’re dynamic—endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change.
On earth, lots of wills are done. Yours, mine, and many others. And so, at present, heaven and earth are not one. What Jesus taught, what the prophets taught, what all of Jewish tradition pointed to a...
Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.
In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broad...
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...
I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.
Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like your life is passing you by.
When people object to the idea of God, to the idea that there is more beyond our tangible, provable-with-hard-evidence observations and experiences of the world, they aren’t taking the entire world in...
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All of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine.
When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.
When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an en...
Whatever those things are that make you feel fully alive and like the universe is ultimately a good place and you are not alone, I need a faith that doesn’t deny these moments but embraces them.
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...