It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
When you say, Doctrine doesn’t matter; what matters is that you live a good life, that is a doctrine. It is called the doctrine of salvation by your works rather than by grace. It assumes that you are...
Whether we are husband or wife, we are not to live for ourselves but for the other. And that is the hardest yet single most important function of being a husband or a wife in marriage. Paul
When you see the problems in each other, do you just want to run away, or do you find a desire to work on them together? If the second impulse is yours, then you have the makings of a marriage. Do you...
When you indulge yourself in bitter thought, it feels so satisfying to fantasize about payback. But slowly and surely it will enlarge your capacity for self-pity, erode your ability to trust and enjoy...
Tremendous freedom comes when we can laugh at ourselves and whisper to him, So! It's been you all along! In some ways that day will be the true beginning of your career as a preacher and teacher of Go...
There is an old story of a king who went into the village streets to greet his subjects. A beggar sitting by the roadside eagerly held up his alms bowl, sure that the king would give handsomely. Inste...
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.
The gospel calls us out of religion as much as it calls us out of irreligion.
The gospel assures me that God cares about everything I do and will listen to my prayers. He may not answer them the way I want, but if he doesn’t it is because he knows things I do not.
The gospel assures me that God cares about everything I do and will listen to my prayers. He may not answer them the way I want, but if he doesn’t it is because he knows things I do not. My degree of...
The church of Jesus Christ is therefore like the ocean. It is enormous and diverse. Like the ocean there are warm and clear spots and deadly cold spots, places you can enter easily without danger and...
That is why even when we believe with all our minds that life is meaningless, we simply can’t live that way. We know better.
Saving people through identification and mediation—does that remind you of anyone? Jesus Christ,
Put most simply, the gospel is an announcement—a declaration. The gospel is not advice to be followed; it is news, good (eu) news about what has been done.
Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself. Marriage shows you a realistic, unflattering picture of who you are and then takes you by the scr...
Lord, when I forget the Gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others. I hear all criticism as a condemnation of my very being. But you have said that there is now no condemnation f...
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...
How, with my existing abilities and opportunities, can I be of greatest service to other people, knowing what I do of God’s will and of human need?
Hay que aprender, pues, primero a servir a los demás, ayudados por el Espíritu, para poder hacer frente así con éxito a los retos y dificultades del matrimonio.