Then the Bible says that human beings were made in God's image. That means, among other things, that we were created to worship and live for God's glory, not our own. We were made to serve God and oth...
The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention.
The third thing Mary does is surrender completely.
The reason marriage is so painful and wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel, which is painful and wonderful at once. The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than...
The first Advocate is speaking to God for you, but the second Advocate is speaking to you for you.
The effects of sin touch all of creation; no created thing is in principle untouched by the corrosive effects of the fall.
The classic Old Testament example of these two ways to run from God is right here in the book of Jonah. Jonah takes turns acting as both the younger brother and the older brother. In the first two cha...
The amazing truth is that God works through sinners, and through sinful situations. He keeps his promises to bless his people in the dark and disastrous periods of our lives, as well as through the ti...
The Israelites must have wondered about this patriarch who was always in trouble. . . . This God does not align himself only with the obviously valued ones, the first-born. This oracle speaks about an...
The Gospel, because it is a true story, means all the best stories will be proved, in the ultimate sense, true. THE
St. Augustine famously said, Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee (Confessions 1.1.1). Augustine believed that even when you seem to be enjoying something else, God is the actual...
Si nuestro valor viene de la aprobación de los compañeros, o del dinero en el banco, o de nuestra reputación por el éxito, entonces estas cosas son nuestros tesoros. No obstante, Jesús señalaba con ra...
Salvation is not merely forgiveness and admission to heaven. It means life is healed, slowly but surely, in all its dimensions.
Only if you commit yourself to loving in action, day in and day out, even when feelings and circumstances are in flux, can you truly be a free individual and not a pawn of outside forces.
Jonah undertook what we could call an urban mission. He went to a city that was one of the largest in the world at that time. When God is arguing about why he should be deeply concerned for Nineveh, h...
Jesus Christ’s salvation comes to us through his poverty, rejection, and weakness. And Christians are not saved by summoning up their strength and accomplishing great deeds but by admitting their weak...
If we believe the great God of the universe really loves us, it should make us emotionally unshakable in the face of criticism, suffering, and death. In
If doctrinal soundness is not accompanied by heart experience, it will lead eventually to nominal Christianity—that is, in name only—and eventually to nonbelief. The irony is that many conservative Ch...
How do common phrases like You have to always be true to yourself create false worldviews that seem completely self-evident to people?
He [Christ] is Isaac, the beloved Son of the Father who was offered as a sacrifice, but nevertheless did not succumb to the power of death. He is Jacob the watchful shepherd, who has such great care f...