When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man’s biography regarding God’s promised experiences and truth for him – his individual, unique...

One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

We are no more secure in Christ with a strong faith than with a small faith, so long as that small faith is true faith.

[Gli uomini] sono gli unici, fra tutti gli esseri creati, che hanno la possibilità d’andare contro l’ordine posto da Dio nel creato: gli uomini sono cioè gli unici esseri veramente liberi, appunto perché sono liberi...

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God’s statutes and nothing else.

Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels.

It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.

I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earlierst sentiments of my soul, if...

…there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

One day I said to them, Where is the God you worship? They said he was like Chukwu, that he was in the sky. I asked then, Who is the person that was killed, the...

I find it sad that more Christian literature does not address miracles, and the possibility of demons in our midst. Jesus performed countless miracles in his life that were clearly discussed in the New Testament....

Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own?

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to...

civic-minded” individuals whose true selfishness was veneered over with public generosity. Such men as these opposed him and sent Him to His death.

Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ’s body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every...

It’s fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.

I believe in God and that everything I do is because of Him. If I don’t have a relationship with God, I can’t love my wife and kids the way I’m supposed to love them.

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as...

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

Many modern Christians think of the New Testament as a book outside of history, something that was just suddenly there. Historians of Christianity, able to trace its gradual authorship and formation, nonetheless typically find themselves...

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I’ve ever met.””You’ve met God?””Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

I have been praying, too, for the first time in my life. That parson, Tugwell, he helped me see – not the error of my ways, for I knew them all to well already –...

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology...

Sin will take you where you didn’t plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

We are sheep surrounded by green pastures, but we will not eat. We seem to have no appetite for the Word of God.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

You possess a great soul, awaken the spirit.

God be thy comfort.God loves you.God will take care for you.

The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.

It is not what we do for God that He counts worthy, but the work we let Him do in us.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do...

Who has stopped worshiping us?””Everyone in the old world,” April said little harshly. “But of course they have, young woman. We left, didn’t we? We came to Everworld. How can you expect people to worship...

Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error

Jesus, do you always show up like this, at the craziest of times and in the oddest of places? I sure hope so.

If you misunderstand the purpose of the X-ray as to say the X-ray is the doctor, You will not be healed.In the same way, it is equally true, If you misunderstand the purpose of the...

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his...

Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on the street (people think) are having a wonderful time enjoying human life to...

God doesn’t offer his Word as a magic fix-all pill that we can ingest and feel better. Rather, God’s Word is the way in which we are invited to encounter the real ‘person’ of God.

Josh had said the only difference between the church girls and me was that they had been forgive. Even after I’d asked for it, it felt too easy, too convenient. A prayer, a faith that...

our God is above us, before us, and within us.” The doctrine of the Trinity — God as one in essence and three in person — shapes and structures Christian faith and practice in every...

‎”Well, It’s just painful to see them without nothing to eat and at the same time no God. So let’s share our food and our God.

I fully recognize there is an urgent need for constructing the _strategic we-nes-in-sameness_ and promoting the _solidarity of sameness_. The sheer realization of the inextricable interconnectedness of I-ness/me-ness and we-ness/us-ness is the round for an...

Cosmopolitanism,…, _speaks_ about the urgent need for and the significance of relocating our discourse on,…, the scope and application of rights and justice for every singular human being regardless of the person’s birth and belonging.

When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along...

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

the longest prayer Peter ever prayed in the Senate-that of March 10, 1947, at the time of Mrs. Alben Barkley’s death-took two minutes; the shortest, that which opened the Second Session of the Eightieth Congress-was...

Christ is God (Rom. 9:5). Jesus is Lord (Rom. 10:9, 12-13; 14:5-9; 2 Cor. 4:5; 12:8-10; Phil. 2:9-11 [expressly after the Resurrection]; Col. 2:6; 1 Tim. 6:3; Titus 2:13 [where he is called God and...

But the fact is that the gospel demands everything of all of us. If someone thinks the gospel has slotted into their life quite easily, without causing any major adjustments to their lifestyle or aspirations,...