A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
When you are loved well, you want more of it. The only reason I believe anyone would not desire to be a disciple of Christ is because they fail to realize just how well loved they are by him. How coul...
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....
As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but on...
The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,
Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.
The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11
I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.
If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.
There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.
Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call...
True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, a...
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...
There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.
We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self.
We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.
Find the good, and praise it.