As future citizens of heaven, Christians must see and avoid the idolatries and injustices of their culture, even as they continue to enjoy its common-grace blessings.
Actually every day that your heart keeps pumping, your country is not invaded, and your brain keeps functioning is wholly an undeserved gift of God. We ought to live simple, normal, uneventful days fu...
Él espera que no disfracemos esas emociones con distracciones que prometen alivio, pero que nunca cumplen.
When someone says, I don’t need a piece of paper to show love, you might say, Yes, you do. If you love the way the Bible describes the love of two people who want to share their lives together, you sh...
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
If we live for and love any thing more than God himself, we are trapped. They become things we have to have, so we run, exhausted, after them.
Children of God only for those who have received Christ as Savior and Lord: Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children [tekna] of God (John 1:...
Western secularity is not the absence of faith but a new set of beliefs about the universe.72
Vietnamese/American co-production Three Seasons, a collection of four intertwining vignettes.
Verse 11 teaches us to use whatever gifts the Lord has graciously given us to make others stronger in their faith. Verse 12 teaches us to allow others to use the faith and gifts the Lord has given the...
To insist that death is nothing to be frightened of is simply another illusion muffling the obscenity of death. We live in denial of it, but like all repressed facts, it keeps disturbing us, haunting...
This is why in the Lord’s Prayer we don’t get to the petition for our daily bread and needs until we have spent time remembering the greatness of God and reigniting our love for him. Only then can we...
The Greeks saw death as a friend, because it liberated us from the prison of physical life. The Bible sees death not as a friend, but as an enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26), because the created world is a...
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...
She must be able to say in her heart, My desire for completely successful and happy children is selfish. It’s all about my need to feel worthwhile and valuable. If I really knew God’s love—then I coul...
Our culture tells us that you must look inside to discover your deepest desires and dreams and to express them. You must do this yourself, and must not rely on anyone outside to affirm and tell you wh...
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.
No es solo creer en Ti, sino, en oración y experiencia, percibir y sentir Tu hermosura. Permíteme amarte por quien eres solamente. Amén.
Luther suggests that after meditating on the Scripture, you should pray through each petition of the Lord’s Prayer, paraphrasing and personalizing each one using your own needs and concerns.
Lord, I will obey you simply because you are worthy of it and it is my duty. But don’t let my service to you remain at that level. Show me your beauty—attract my heart, capture my imagination, so that...