Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.
In the secular view, this material world is all there is. And so the meaning of life is to have the freedom to choose the life that makes you most happy. However, in that view of things, suffering can...
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...
Could you explain to someone else how the gospel can (and should) transform our sense of identity? How much do you experience that transformed sense of identity? • In what ways has God’s Word encourag...
Consider, then, that the single calling Paul speaks of is neither a condition without any struggle nor on the other hand an experience of misery. It is fruitfulness in life and ministry through the si...
But the Philosopher startles us by arguing that even if you are one of the few people who breaks through and accomplishes all you hope for, it’s all for nothing, for in the end there are no lasting ac...
And yet, why do you think Jesus Christ came into this world through a pregnant, unwed teenage girl in a patriarchal shame-and-honor culture? God didn’t have to do it that way. But I think it was his w...
According to the Bible, God devised marriage to reflect his saving love for us in Christ, to refine our character, to create stable human community for the birth and nurture of children, and to accomp...
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...
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
Without socially shared discovered meaning we have no basis for saying to somebody else: You need to stop doing that! Created meanings cannot be the basis for a program of social justice. Martin
When Lovelace speaks of warming oneself at the fire of God’s love, he is describing what it means to meditate on the righteousness we have in Christ through his sacrificial death. If we don’t meditate...
To glorify others means to unconditionally serve them, not because we’re getting anything out of it, just because of our love and appreciation for who they truly are.
To be part of a whole, to become part of a greater unity, you have to surrender your independence. You must give up the right to make decisions unilaterally.
There is no more proper response to really seeing God as he is—transcendent beyond all imagination—than to be still and adore.
There is a God, there is a future healed world that he will bring about, and your work is showing it (in part) to others.
Then, suddenly, the defense comes in with a new witness who can be proved to have been at the scene of the crime! The witness says: I was there, and she (the defendant) was not. She is innocent! This...
The gospel calls us out of religion as much as it calls us out of irreligion.
Sin shrugs at God. Its essence is failing to believe not that he exists but that he matters. This attitude is deadly.
Sin is not simply doing bad things, it is putting good things in the place of God. So the only solution is not simply to change our behavior, but to reorient and center the entire heart and life on Go...