The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is get...
In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.
Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scr...
Character is the main object of education.
Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, th...
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
When in situations of stress, we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capabilities perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordain...
Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.
Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.
Time served does not guarantee maturity.
I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.
The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.
The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.
A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
The more broken you are, the more light gets through.
The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is the reason for the Col...
Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, "The Lord is in this pla...
I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.
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