If everything is mission, nothing is mission.

Although some of the people at church rejected and even denounced me, this did not particularly hinder me in my search. Rather, the fact that there were church people as weak and foolish as I...

How could any Lord have made this world?… there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit… No happiness lasted.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, “Greater love hath no man–” and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.

A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy.

Rest in your God-breathed worth. Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the lesser things...

It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never...

Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point—to...

At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward...

For this great sickness that is upon us no one person is responsible, and no Christian is wholly free from blame. We have all contributed, directly or indirectly, to this sad state of affairs. We...

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

Take advantage of every obstacle which presents itself and slay that Goliath! You are a warrior, a worthy opponent. Moreover, you have the advantage, God is on your side!

Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and...

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

We have no king but Jesus!

The church of Jesus Christ is…a community…that is not held together by common interest and that is not held together by common blood and not even by common opinions and convictions but certainly a community...

A higher understanding of human freedom, however, is inseparable from a definition of human nature. To be free is to be able to flourish as the kind of being one is, and so to attain...

It is suspected, by some, that spiritual beings are extremely jealous of the natural world because they are nothing more than a figment of the imagination. This might explain their compulsive and obsessive behavior in...

Barth was the first theologian to begin the criticism of religion…but he set in its place the positivist doctrine of revelation which says in effect, ‘Take it or leave it’: Virgin Birth, Trinity or anything...

That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the...

When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less...

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.

[I]t’s difficult to make people see that what you have been taught counts for nothing, and that the only things worth having are the things you find out for yourself. Also, that when so many...

In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for numbness,...

contrary to nature” is a dynamic destruction of death and a triumph for the life of the person.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Worldliness proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man’s fallen nature; it judges the importance of things by the present and material results; it weighs success by numbers; it covets human esteem and wants...

Only God gets the glory when revival comes to town.

There is no reason to learn divine truths if we do not apply them in our hearts and minds, live them out daily, and defend them in the public square when we are given the...

…we, as human beings, do not “enable” God to do anything. We are subject to His divine will—it is not the other way around. He is our Creator, and we are subject to Him.

A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a “soul”? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only spontaneously add a soul when we evolved into Homo sapiens?

It seems the more we know, the less we believe.

If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could...

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

…Love Christ and put nothing before His Love. He is joy, He is life, He is light. Christ is Everything. He is the ultimate desire, He is everything. Everything beautiful is in Christ.

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found–I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the...

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it’s not about Christ, it’s not Christianity.

the service”. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn’t read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others...

A critical point: Is an inter-phase between crisis and normalcy, life and death, danger and safety, failure and success

Far better it is for you to say: “I am a sinner,” than to say: “I have no need of religion.” The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

If God gave it to me,” we say “it’s mine. I can do what I want with it.” No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back...

Fear drains us, while love empowers us.

…the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. ‘How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?…You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of...

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Out of the will of God, there is no such thing as success, in the will of God there cannot be any failure.