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While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love thing...
The Divine Dance Christianity, alone among the world faiths, teaches that God is triune. The doctrine of the Trinity is that God is one being who exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Hol...
Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.
The second thing Mary does is to express her doubts openly.
The answer is that their confidence was actuallh in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were no...
Malcontents praised least. The good critics found
It is now also cursed because of mankind’s fall.
We cannot love rightly without hating rightly!
We are irreducibly hope-based creatures.
She reasoned, she doubted, she surrendered, she connected with others.
Jesus is the true and better Adam, who passed the test in the garden and whose obedience is imputed to us (1 Corinthians 15). Jesus is the true and better Abel, who, though innocently slain, has blood...
It is easy to overlook the fact that the promise that in all things God works for the good is made only to those who love him, who have been called
The gospel is neither religion nor irreligion - it is something else altogether. Religion makes law and moral obedience a means of salvation, while irreligion makes the individual a law to him - or he...
The reason that marriage is so painful and yet 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 ourse...
The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering; it's his sin.
Taking the message into my heart means not just to interpret it but to let it affect me deeply. It means, in a sense, preaching to myself, reminding myself of the preciousness, the value, the wonder,...
Look what God’s done for me! Is this how I respond to him?
If God’s words are his personal, active presence, then to put your trust in God’s words is to put your trust in God.
Created meaning is a less rational way to live life than doing so with discovered meaning.