I cannot protect my children from my weaknesses. As hard as I may try, at some point my sin will affect their lives. However, the way I deal with my failure can provide an example...

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God)

Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God.

Exchanging life with Jesus Christ as taught by Jesus and His designated witnesses is not following a set of laws, rules, codes, principles, disciplines, scripts or cookbook formulas in our own power in an attempt...

Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But...

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus’ touch. We experience his care.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Would it be worth it to pick up my cross and be crucified next to Jesus? If He is not God, then, no. Lose everything I love to worship a false God? A million times...

When I tell other Christians of my time with the goddess, I think they expect me to characterize it as a period in my life when I was misguided, and that I have now thankfully...

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord’s table, no demand for purity of life?

They seemed happy and at peace. I knew the feeling for the first time.

Cosmopolitan discourse is in a way a response to the issue of solidarity. Although the precondition for solidarity can be a _community_, solidarity requires more intentional commitment and performance than does community.

Have you ever had God lay hold of you in the wee hours and reduce you until you had ‘Nothing left to do but fling/Care aside and simply cling?’ (Crowded to Christ, p. 29).

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay...

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise...

He is the Way.Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness;You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures.He is the Truth.Seek Him in the Kingdom of Anxiety;You will come to a great city that has...

One should preach not from one’s rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches...

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

The nature of God’s plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction

Love only fails when we fail to love.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can’t stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow...

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

According to Benedict’s scheme, the community reads through… the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed… to all the despairing, doubtful, bitter, vindictive, jingoistic, nationalistic, and seemingly racist passages in the...

But supposing God became a man – suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God’s nature in one person – then that person could help us. He could surrender His...

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

You are saying what is true, but you are not getting any further.

Because cultures and languages are constantly changing and because the apostolic testimony must be attested in ever-new circumstances, it is a necessary feature of the apostolic tradition that it both guard the original testimony and...

In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu­ca­tion and dis­cus­sion, per­haps it was pos­si­ble to get on with a very few sim­ple ideas about God. But...

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power–worship.

For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. “Teo, I think you have to let Deu be the God he is, not...

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God’s blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich...

I love that there’s no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day is a new chance to listen longer and be braver and love more....

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there’s no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn’t fit me.

I don’t want to forget my origin: I’m an eternal spirit placed in a body put on this earth for only a short time to fulfill a purpose.

By eroding their sense of shame we’ve made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. …their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if...

Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. “I believe God created me in one day”....

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from...

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd

I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one.

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.