You must not think of them [Hebrews 12 Cloud of Witnesses] as perfect saints who never suffered as we do. Instead you must see them as the flawed and the betrayed and the wounded who simply chose to l...
The confirmation of history is that we are not called despite our wounding and betrayal; we are wounded and betrayed because we are called. And God yearns to make your pain redemptive in your life.
When church becomes for us an anointed have, when the grace is flowing and all is well we become sentimental...we remake people into what we need them to be. We are not wise in our love, prudent in ou...
There is no such thing as perfection in a church. Instead, what you should be looking for is a covenanted body, a leadership team that has the goods for coaching you in Christ, and a place where you c...
When an Antarctic expedition in 1933 returned to the site of an earlier expedition in 1929, a member of the team reported that at the abandoned station there were also four bottles of Guinness on a sh...
What kind of man breaks his vows, destroys lives, and violates the laws of God for false love and brief pleasures?
It is testimony to the importance of beer in their story that the brewery was the first permanent building the Pilgrims constructed.
Prophets (must) humbly accept the truth that they see through a glass darkly, that they know only in part. In other words, they make mistakes. Mature prophets urge everyone to who they prophesy to jud...
SOMEONE ONCE TRIED TO SUMMARIZE A PRINCIPLE IN Aristotle’s epic work Poetics with these words: Action is character. Now Aristotle was describing the elements of drama when he wrote his Poetics, so he...
Abraham Lincoln avoided the extremes of his family’s psychological deformities, but he still suffered from a dark, draining, despair-inducing force that seemed at times to bore into the center of his...
Take all of this book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier and better man.
What kind of degenerate thinks it is manly to beat a woman—that he is somehow affirming his superior status in the world through violence against those he is intended to protect?
As you forgive, you are allowing God to clean up the mess and start making your life right again. The demonic taunts are coming to an end. Peace is returning. Perhaps relationships are even being rest...
But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain—the pain that registers inside—the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that mes...
It may even be that you can find absolutely nothing redeeming about the people who have wronged you. Perhaps the only hook of compassion you can find is to pity them in their sinful state. Whatever th...
God will not free us until we free others.
Find it interesting, given the controversies over alcohol that would eventually erupt in the history of the Christian church, that the arrival of Christianity in the world and its eventual sway over t...
I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself a man.
There is no such thing as perfection on earth and certainly not in a church.
HAVING THUS CHOSEN OUR COURSE, WITHOUT GUILES AND WITH PURE PURPOSE, LET US RENEW OUR TRUST IN GOD, AND GO FORWARD WITHOUT FEAR AND WITH MANLY HEARTS. —Abraham Lincoln, Address to Congress, July 4, 18...
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