I didn’t deserve a friend like this, who loved me for no reason— who loved me despite my mistakes. I caught my breath as the thought entered my mind. Could God love me this way...

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

To me, ‘Blue Like Jazz’ is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don – raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in...

She talks about being a Christian as if it’s a gym membership you can sign up for.

My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they’ll ask me how to get it. If not, that’s their business.

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great...

Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?

Pride had a very similar character with Lust. He was difficult to satisfy, but rather than desiring tasty foods, Pride desired valuable possessions. Man clung to Pride more than the other two because he was...

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

The explanation for her absence had been staring him in the face all the while, but he hadn’t wanted to acknowledge it: The affair meant nothing to her. He’d been the only one bewitched body...

Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.

Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty...

I’m always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

a criminal sketch of Christon a diner napkin-‘Poet Prophets

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so...

Face me and learn that I’m not alone, attack and you’ll find that my Leader stands beside me. I will bleed and I may die, but this warrior will not be shaken!” -Regan

That is the idea — that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for...

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...

But miracles still happen, even if we don’t think they do.

Men and women are needed whose prayers will give to the world the utmost power of God; who will make His promises to blossom with rich and full results. God is waiting to hear us...

Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus’ words that unless...

Let us be women who Love. Let us be women willing to lay down our sword words, our sharp looks, our ignorant silence and towering stance and fill the earth now with extravagant Love.Let us...

A little knee time first thing in the day keeps u standing all day!

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result

Ask the question, receive the answer; don’t ask the question, don’t receive the answer.

Heaven will happen someday, but let’s not wait. Heaven can start now.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the...

You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God’s own heart.

When we view ourselves through the lens of God’s Word, we better understand God’s love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.

Don’t waste your most important resource—your life.

When all is said and done, one of our rewards may be praise, but the greater reward is being faithful to follow our Lor and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Christian turned around and penetrated Slater with his obsidian eyes. “Better talk or I’ll introduce you to my two best friends,” he said harshly, holding up his fists. “Meet thunder and lightning. If you don’t...

What defines our world; believes, thoughts, dreams, decisions, choices and actions.

Walk in the light before the dawn of darkness.

By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.

One Lord, one faith and one baptism.

The Lord our God reigns!The Lord our God is righteous!

Always look heavenward in any situation.Trust God to grant you the needed grace and strength to overcome the situation.

Prayerful life; deeper communication with God.

A blessed hope, a blessed life.

If you can dream it, you can make it a reality. The possibility lies in your ability, enthusiasm and hardwork to realise it.

Love is an act; the act of loving, the act of compassionate and the act of forgiveness.

The courage to dream, the courage to act.

One thing is needful; to know and abide in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Never grow weary of doing good.

No one can foretell the details in a day, we can only hope.