Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for...

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross.”- Thomas A Kempis (The Following of...

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening...

Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to know from its origin, God.

I hope no reader will suppose that ‘mere’ Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions – as if a man could adopt in it a preference to...

Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the...

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get...

Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ’s grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)… Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would...

Many times in the Christian life, we focus on the five-minute salvation experience rather than the lifetime of work the Lord will put into us and the many paths and instances we will find God.

God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love....

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.

If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats,...

We are going to make mistakes no matter what, so it’s better to be strong in faith despite our mistakes than weak in faith because of them.

A theology that cannot be sung is not worth having…. Authentic Christian faith is not merely believed. Nor is it merely acted upon. It is sung – with utter joy sometimes, in uncontrollable tears sometimes,...

The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God,...

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

You have learned that it is impossible to divide things neatly, and that the second you begin to define something, you limit it. There is no such thing as “cut and dried” in a world...

We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.

Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about...

Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman’s role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior...

Your destiny is not tied to a person or a place. Your destiny is within you. It is tied to GOD.

Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?

In Christianity and the body of Christ there is no room for celebrities, the message of the cross doesn’t centre around anyone. It is Christ & Him alone. God can do without any of our...

In the arms of Your mercy I find rest’cause You know just how far the east is from the westFrom one scarred hand to the other

The Christlike life has nothing at all to do with satisfying, coddling, or promoting self, but everything to do with being poured out for others.

Choose to view life through God’s eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage...

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous....

Heaven is not a republic.

I continue to experience my faith in God as a personal relationship between the two of us. However, having admitted my commonality with the human race, I find that my faith does not flourish in...

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.

So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don’t trust things you can...

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.

But here I’d like to add to what the Tempter’s Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing...

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it’s the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us...

I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn’t matter if homosexuality is...

Bad things happen to everyone. No one by their behavior can store up any immunity from disaster or tragedy. All any of us can control is how we respond when tough times come. This does...

When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our...

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a...

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in...

The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.

And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind...

Worship isn’t just a concept or idea— it is a real encounter at appointed times with the one true God in Christ through the Holy Spirit. If all the ideas about worship today can’t be...

As much as we want God to explain Himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.