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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
She reasoned, she doubted, she surrendered, she connected with others.
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
Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually b...
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next person. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are p...
Prayer: Lord, I praise you—though with fear and trembling—that you are the judge of all the earth. Deliver me from the temptation to want to sit in judgment on certain people. I cannot see into anyone...
Marriage is a major vehicle for the gospel's remaking of your heart from the inside out and your life from the ground up.
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...
God varies his strategies too, and continually extends mercy to us in new ways, even though we neither understand nor deserve it.
Created meaning is a less rational way to live life than doing so with discovered meaning.
Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.
حتى الأشخاص اللذين يظلون أوفياء لنا يموتون و يرحلون عنا, أو نموت نحن و نرحل عنهم
The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering; it's his sin.
Pride is an all-around evil. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vic...