You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.

We have our own language. Christianese… We don’t say ‘He’s out of his mind,’ no, we say ‘That’s our youth pastor.

You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it. Which is the “true” or “valid” experience? Which tells you most about the thing? And you...

We are at our best when we love the Lord and his church more than our style of life. We do not believe in our country, right or wrong. If evil has such a grip...

Those who have attained everlasting life in the vision of God doubtless know very well that it is no mere bribe, but the very consummation of their earthly discipleship; but we who have not yet...

Part of the human experience is to confront temptation. No one escapes. It is omnipresent. It is both externally driven and internally prompted. It is like the enemy that attacks from all sides. It boldly...

Having personality does not mean being violent, rather honouring life by taking a stand. In this era so devoid of values, where people think it is safe to do everything that comes to mind, there...

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

We seek in one another the assurance that there is just one correct interpretation of the world, that everything is so simple that anybody can see it unless they’re malicious or stupid or willfully ignorant;...

The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European peoples to European civilization. The idea that people’s historical...

Seek God in the morning. Praise Him during the day. Meditate on Him at night.

Heaven is closer and more real than anything we experience in this life. And ultimately, I think that’s why I’ve seen these glimpses—I’m always on the lookout for them. I believe if you look closely,...

So, Andrew, what you are basically saying is that the theological issue regarding homosexuality boils down to a disagreement between those who think that the sodomy laws are part of Levitical code about cleanliness, holiness...

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.

Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to ‘ask, seek, knock’ in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and...

The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one degree, did not open any fount of grace or mercy in His heart. He...

It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as ‘new men’ regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ. It is His will that we reach out for our...

love me with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.” One of the ways we love Him well is to hold His gifts with open hands, willing to give them up if they get in...

My stress resulted from not knowing God, not trusting him with my whole heart, seeking peace and purpose from the world instead of from him, and from being so afraid of change that I would...

Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption...

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave,...

Behind every successful woman,there isn’t just a woman but a prayerful and hardworking woman.If not every married man would be successful.

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were...

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it...

Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion with God was an urgent need of his soul; he viewed it not...

In Him we have peace, in Him we have power; Preserved by His grace, throughout the dark hour; In all our temptation He keeps us to proveHis utmost salvation, His fulness of love.Pronounce the glad...

As you’ll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you’ll behave cautiously. If you believe...

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose...

Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than wearing a hat.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound.

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if...

And then I stand in front of God’s Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, ‘You had your opportunities, boy. But did you listen? No. You went on heedlesly reading that garbagey...

I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe...

This is about development of Judaism and Christianity, which do go separate ways at a certain point. But it is also about how they emerge from common roots and how they parallel their development almost...

We must make decisions as if they affect those we’ve not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.

Life Consists Of Many Things But You Have To Do One Thing… And That Thing Is Living For God.Remember You Cant Do Many Things At Once.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

I love you not because you are deserving of my love but because it is my number one duty as a Christian.There is no Christianity without true love!

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

‎”I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, ‘Moody, save all you can.