The Gospel is a harsh document; the Gospel is ruthless and specific in what it says; the Gospel is not meant to be re-worded, watered down and brought to the level of either our understanding...

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why purgatory appeals to the imagination. It is our story. It is where we are now. If...

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is — in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree — it...

I didn’t deserve a friend like this, who loved me for no reason— who loved me despite my mistakes. I caught my breath as the thought entered my mind. Could God love me this way...

The gospel isn’t just enough to justify the ungodly; it’s enough to regenerate and sanctify the ungodly. However, only because (in the narrower sense) the good news announces our justification are we for the first...

To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

My recommendation instead, however, is that we do not surrender questions of value, whether absolute matters of truth, goodness, and beauty or relative judgment of more or less truth, goodness, and beauty. With those questions...

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, “I am.” We are ontological oxymorons.

Your past does not have to dictate your future. You have the God-given power to make your life better and to heal from divorce.

The whole message of Christianity is in the resurrection of Christ. The message of salvation is more clearly spoken in his death and resurrection.

But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word “hell,” what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn’t his point. He’s often not talking about...

when it comes to marriage true spirituality of believer comes out .

How do we stay on the narrow path of following God’s will in every sphere of life? How do we maintain sure footing and not fall into the temptation of rebellion on one side, or...

God loves and cares for creation and has the right to expect this loving care be replicated by humans. Creation exists, not for the glory of humanity, but for the glory of God. God has...

Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we’re standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach.

When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel’s over the swells of the organ....

We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one...

I am bundled in the warmth of the price and the purchase, and its solid completion, as in royal robes– marvelous these royal robes!These robes are authority that can decree that trouble, sin of my...

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Lay down an unforgiving spirit, because there’ll be no peace until you do.

Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord’s Supper,...

I daren’t come and drink,” said Jill. Then you will die of thirst,” said the Lion.Oh dear!” said Jill, coming another step nearer.”I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.”There is no...

. . . when we take upon ourselves his yoke of obedience, his yoke is easy, his burden is light (Matt. 11:28-30). When is a burden light? It is when we find our burdensome lives...

Creatures, I give you yourselves,” said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. “I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars...

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

The possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. When souls become wicked they will certainly use this possibility to hurt one another; and this, perhaps, accounts...

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.

…the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the...

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!

If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to...

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity...

It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who’s filled with vengeance

God’s glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man...

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart’s love upon...

I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to...

È una delle facoltà singolari e incomunicabili della religione cristiana, il poter indirizzare e consolare chiunque, in qualsivoglia congiuntura, a qualsivoglia termine, ricorra ad essa. Se al passato c’è rimedio, essa lo prescrive, lo somministra,...

If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only they have any chance of being saved, then ‘love’ has no intelligible meaning...

Now, a plain word here about the Christian church trying to carry on in its own power: That kind of Christianity makes God sick, for it is trying to run a heavenly institution after an...

We don’t want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing...

Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw – one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible and the historical doctrine of the Church.

What we view as God’s absence or lack of quickness to change our circumstances or fix our problems is really God waiting for the proper time to act on our behalf, while simultaneously waiting for...

That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe.

Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it?

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.(Jesus, in Mark 11:24)

Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal...