Though most spiritual seekers start their search afraid of disappointment, Jesus says that he will always be infinitely more than anyone is looking for. He will always exceed our expectations; he will...
This means that Jesus’s message, which is the gospel, is a completely different spirituality. The gospel of Jesus is not religion or irreligion, morality or immorality, moralism or relativism, conserv...
This is the future—fulfilling, renewing, joy-giving—that creation can look forward to because it is the future that God’s children are looking forward to.
These two chapters give us a great example of the banality of evil. Evil does not usually make people incredibly wicked and violent— that would be interesting, and tends to wake people up. Rather, sin...
Therefore, everything you have is a matter of grace, and so you have the freedom to serve the world through your influence, just as you can through your competence.
There is a difference between believing that God is holy and gracious, and having a new sense on the heart of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. The difference between believing tha...
The third thing Mary does is surrender completely.
The message of the Bible is that the human race is a band of exiles trying to come home. The parable of the prodigal son is about every one of us.
The history of the patriarchs is filled with such missteps and moral failures. How could these be our moral examples? The answer: Biblical faith, unlike other kinds, is not primarily about emulating m...
The gospel does not say, the good are in and the bad are out, nor the open-minded are in and the judgmental are out. The gospel says the humble are in and the proud are out. The gospel says the people...
The founders of the great religions say, in one way or another, I am here to show you the way to spiritual reality. Do all this. That’s advice. Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, comes and say...
The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us.
The Christian principle that needs to be at work is Spirit-generated selflessness - not thinking less of yourself or more of yourself but thinking of yourself less. It means taking your mind off yours...
The Christian life begins not with high deeds and achievements but with the most simple and ordinary act of humble asking. Then the life and joy grow in us over the years through commonplace, almost b...
The Bible says that Jesus came on a rescue mission for creation. He had to pay for our sins so that someday he can end evil and suffering without ending us.
Sin embargo, la división de la herencia solo tenía lugar cuando el padre moría. Aquí, el hijo menor pide la herencia ahora, lo cual era una gran falta de respeto, ya que hacerlo cuando el padre aún vi...
Reformer John Calvin wrote of the divinitatis sensum, the sense of deity that all human beings have. There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity, and there...
Pieper writes: Leisure is the condition of considering things in a celebrating spirit. . . . Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity. . . . It is rather like the st...
People who laugh at the claim that there is a transcendent moral order do not think that racial genocide is just impractical or self-defeating, but that it is wrong. The Nazis who exterminated Jews ma...
Paul is saying that sin can only be cut off at the root if we expose ourselves constantly to the unimaginable love of Christ for us. That exposure stimulates a wave of gratitude and a feeling of indeb...