God hasn’t called us to be successful, just faithful.

The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.

Then a movement began among the people. They creaked to their feet, shuffled and fumbled up to the front, kneeling on the floor, and she saw little Thomas at the beginning of the row. The...

It seems to me some people just go around lookin’ to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

Pour Into My Spirit…spread your arms around meconsole me and keep me close -wield your mighty swordto vanquish all my foes…

No, no, I’m not one of them. I’m one of you. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but I also wear fishnet stockings and drink single malt Scotch.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in...

When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.

Instead of living our lives fighting discontentment, striving to gain contentment from things that were never meant to bring contentment… What if we gave it all up for a grand adventure, for a worthy cause,...

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?

Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From all the filth of self and pride.The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once...

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new...

No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take...

To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in;...

Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the...

When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.

I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very...

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

I am what some would say ‘holy, and wholly other than you.’ The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting...

God is alive, real, and wants to heal you in every aspect of your life where you are hurting.

You can’t take the human out of the person.

When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn’t see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the...

All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen it long before, the ludicrous contradiction between my theory of life and my...

God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the...

And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but...

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

I said in a previous chapter that chastity was the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. But I am not sure I was right. I believe there is one even more unpopular. It is laid...

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.

When he gets to his pew and looks round him he sees just that selection of his neighbors whom he has hitherto avoided. You want to lean pretty heavily on those neighbors. Make his mind...

Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.

We can but have Faith, for though we can not see beyond our own noses, God always knows what lay ahead.

No demon can withstand the power of Christ,” said my father, repeating the words he had used long ago, and what he meant was that no dissociated mind can withstand the integrating power of the...

When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.

Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build...

We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That’s why we must rely on God’s strength to transform us.

I do not believe that God has given us this trial to not purpose. I know that the day will come when we will clearly understand why this persecution with all it’s sufferings has been...

I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

message of truth” found in all of us, that binds theology—holistic virtues combined with purpose is the foundation of spiritual evolution. The diversity among us all is not divided truth, but the opportunity for unity...

Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to...

Lift your heart and let it rest upon Jesus and you are instantly in a sanctuary though it be a Pullman berth or a factory or a kitchen. You can see God from anywhere if...

I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur’d. From whence I concluded, (as I told him) that he had never read over the Gospells; truly he...

You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts...

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to...

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption...