What a joyful journey, to travel with the Lord.

God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

The more time that passes without an answer and the longer we wander through the wilderness of silence and shadow, the more fearful we become that maybe God isn’t all we have believed him to...

Sometimes it’s easy to walk by because we know we can’t change someone’s whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward...

The disobedience if Eve in the Genesis story has been used to justify women’s inequality and suffering in many Christian traditions. Thus, what is understood as women’s complicity in evil leads much traditional theological reflection...

What you think to be a tragedy id God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

By popular demand a king had been appointed, but if Israel thought that he would solve all their problems by leading them to conquests without reference to God’s law, they were quite wrong.

I know you’re wrong but you won’t take my word for it, so God will have to explain it to you.

I think they’d barely recognize us as brothers and sisters. If we told them, church is on Sundays, and we have an awesome band…if the found out 1/6th of the earth’s population claimed to be...

Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you). Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as yourself. Tip 1 for Mortals: Ask God to call your bluffs.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one’s...

Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions. (p. 70)

We do not read the Bible somewhere off by ourselves in a corner; we read it as a community of faith, together with the whole church in all times and places.

In fact, it’s true throughout all of Scripture….Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no one notices. It’s a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That’s not the small-print–that’s a...

the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.

Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door;...

Just because you don’t believe in something does not mean that it’s not true.

Pilate’s skeptical sneer “What is truth?” was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world’s stupidest question was three words; God’s profoundest answer was one Word.

Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are anxious that all they do shall be esteemed and praised), they consider that...

With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private...

Catholicism … tries to grab all the poker chips on the table, kick everybody out of the game, and then pretend they were never there until the game was effectively over. It’s just a ridiculous,...

Life in Christ is like traveling on a metro link train, with a predetermined destination. You are not the driver, Jesus is, and God provided the route on this one time trip. He plotted everything,...

To be able to accept the wonder and the marvel of one’s own personality, however flawed or ‘accidental,’ and place it in and trust it to the hands of the One who made it, is...

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

The Divine decree is the necessary condition of the Divine foreknowledge. If God does not first decide what shall come to pass, he cannot know what will come to pass. An event must be made...

The Christian right, which trumpets the theme of family values, damns contemporary culture for undermining older traditions. Yet many individuals from this camp are not concerned first and foremost about family values per se. Family...

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship...

The division in human religion has always been between those who see the fall of man as a fall into freedom and those who see it as an act of defiance against the tyranny of...

And who did she have? The thought caught her up short, but then she smiled, remembering the preacher’s words. She had the Lord. He was her foundation, and that was enough.

God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of...

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the...

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to ‘courageous ignorance,’ Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God’s objective communication of truth.

In Book III, which deals with morals, I have also passed over some things but for a different reason. Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War, I have had a...

The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or ‘in God’s name I absolve you.’ Rather it is that point at which the sinner unfeignedly experiences...

The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of...

You and I live at a moment of history that is simultaneously terrible and wonderful. Terrible because of the condition of the society in which we are destined to live out our lives. Wonderful because...

The problem with many Jesus freaks is that we claim to ‘build our house on a rock,’ but when a storm comes we have such confidence in the building that all our focus is on...

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to...

The sad part was that everything I said was true but I was going about the healing in entirely the wrong way. As I was to be taught later, you can’t heal the sick by...

Every day is a blank canvas to use our free will to create something beautiful for our Creator.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That’s why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.

One needn’t identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is more than enough. Of course it is! But as long as I know...

There’s a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, “Why on our hearts, and...

They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.

Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the brain is not fully formed until you’re twenty-five years old, and you wonder,...

The key is to understand that our children don’t belong to us—they belong to God. Our goal as parents must not be limited by our own vision. I am a finite, sinful, selfish man. Why...