pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a...

Komandoo Nicolas Kahima Kankiriho (‘Kahima the Warrior’) alizaliwa katika Wilaya ya Bushenyi, Ankole, kusini-magharibi mwa Uganda, Julai 24, 1954, mtoto wa tano kuzaliwa, katika familia ya watoto sita ya Nicodemas Kankiriho; mzee wa heshima wa...

The people who really thirst for life, who stand daily on the brink of every kind of death, who struggle desperately to distinguish some light in the seated mystery of human existence— these are the...

God too, has sinned, that’s what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

if we fail to root ourselves in Scripture, our souls will be starved for Christ.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

How one views Scripture will determine the rest of one’s theology. There is no more basic issue: Every system of thought that takes seriously the claims of the Bible to be the inspired, authoritative Word...

Compromise with the world leads to nothing but a falling away from Christ.

If one religion were ‘true,’ we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought...

The important place held by Jesus among the world’s six hundred million Moslems… and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively...

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

Modernity has abandoned the household gods, not because we have rejected the idolatry as all Christians must, but because we have rejected the very idea of the household. We no longer worship Vesta, but have...

…The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this...

Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement...

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Religious politics is the bent of those who push “The Myth of the Christian Nation” or “Muslim Supremicism” everywhere! ~ © gfp ’42™

His Pronouncement is Your Announcement -I will make thy name great

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Since there is no one like God, therefore all people should fear Him—in other words, dread His power and be devoted to His person.

I spend a lot of time looking up.

In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid, because the facts are familiar; and for fallen men it is...

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Some would define a servant like this: ‘A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.’ The human concept of a servant is that a...

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says...

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

Who am I?What is my mission?

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by “rests,” and we foolishly think we...

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct...

Creation of mankind, the power of God.

I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before…. I am going to take you places where no one has ever been. I am going to take...

Love is God. God is love.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.

That’s not a lucky thing, Cecil,” said Teresa, “it’s a sacred thing.” “What’s the difference?” Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. “Roughly this,” she said. “A thing is magic if you get what you want through it;...

Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science develops out of the alchemy of the medieval Christian milieu (derived from Arabic alchemy, which was stimulated by the much...

Some days, I believe the Christian story even more than I believe in Australia. After all, I have never been to Australia, it is just a picture on a map. I don’t know if I...

The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he...

Christian love is not a wave of emotion, but a deliberate conviction of the mind that issues in a biblical way of life. (p. 36)

Only when we start with the gospel — the most controversial point of Christian faith — are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him.

Jesus doesn’t hold back with Nicodemus.Following Jesus would require a commitment that would cost Nicodemus a great deal….In fact, it’s true throughout all of Scripture….Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no...

Cosmopolitan discourse…provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good...

Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.