Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and r...
Jesus not only preached the word, but also healed the sick, fed the hungry, and cared for the needs of the poor.
Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.
Change my heart so I can walk in your footsteps. Amen.
Because of unutterable love and joy in God, we tremble with the privilege of being in his presence and with an intense longing to honor him when we are there. We are deeply afraid of grieving him.
To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.
All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.
Whatever you have set your mind on shapes your lifestyle and character. What
When God is asked: Remember your great mercy and love, he is being asked to act according to his character. When someone asks God to remember not [my] sins, he or she is asking that God would not act...
What must we do, then, to be saved? To find God we must repent of the things we have done wrong, but if that is all you do, you may remain just an elder brother. To truly become Christians we must als...
To summarize this point—Luther says we should start with meditation on a text we have previously studied, then after praising and confessing in accordance with our meditation, we should paraphrase the...
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow travelers.
The principle: God speaks to us in his Word, and we respond in prayer, entering into the divine conversation, into communion with God.
Our pleasure and our duty, though opposite before, since we have seen his beauty, are joined to part no more.36
Our modern culture’s idea of freedom is wholly negative. We are free as long as no one is constraining our choices. However, this concept is too thin to be adequate.
No other religion envisions matter and spirit living together in integrity forever.
Marriage does and should somewhat limit the extent of friendships you have with others of the opposite sex. In Christian community, however, singles can have a greater range of friendships among both...
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship… is that pretty much anything else you w...
Creation, then, is not the aftermath of a battle but the plan of a craftsman.
If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, lovi...