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.
Pieper argues that leisure is not the mere absence of work, but an attitude of mind or soul in which you are able to contemplate and enjoy things as they are in themselves, without regard to their val...
Our goal is to feed your imagination and stir your action with the richness of what the Christian faith says (directly and indirectly) about this inexhaustible subject.
Obviously, to be in the fear of the Lord is not to be scared of the Lord, even though the Hebrew word has overtones of respect and awe. Fear in the Bible means to be overwhelmed, to be controlled by s...
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...
Look what God’s done for me! Is this how I respond to him?
In a penetrating insight, Bauckham writes that belief in the story of salvation also breaks the cycle by which the oppressed become oppressors in their turn.47 In the Old Testament the Israelites are...
If you are younger, it is natural to say to yourself, I have heard about these disillusioned celebrities and wealthy people who say their life isn’t happy. But if I get anything like what I’m hoping f...
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?
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others…but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a...
He was a perfectionist, always unhappy with what he had produced, often distracted from more important issues by fussing over less important details, prone to worry and procrastination.
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.
God is the only person from whom you can hide nothing. Before him you will unavoidably come to see yourself in a new, unique light. Prayer, therefore, leads to a self-knowledge that is impossible to a...
God gives us talents and gifts so we can do for one another what he wants to do for us and through us.
Everywhere God is, prayer is. Since God is everywhere and infinitely great, prayer must be all-pervasive in our lives.
Christian living is therefore a continual realignment process—one of bringing everything in line with the truth of the gospel.
An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities, and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking t...
It is far harder than we think to have a self-identity that doesn’t lead to exclusion. The real culture war is taking place inside our own disordered hearts, wracked by inordinate desires for things t...
We cannot love rightly without hating rightly!