So we do not read the Bible simply to fill our minds, but to change our hearts. We do not read the Bible simply to be informed, but to be conformed to the image of...

‎”Being most concerned with God’s righteous judgments rather than the biased judgments of mere men, I have been standing…for the cause of Christ”. ~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith – and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith...

Praying because you’re afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and still feel scared, it’s whether you’re not praying right or not praying at...

Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign...

Truth is rarely simple and seldom obvious, which is why mature institutions recognise the importance of conflict and disagreement. Christianity was born in conflict, and it has been characterised by conflict ever since. The Church’s...

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom’s specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

You are saying what is true, but you are not getting any further.

Because cultures and languages are constantly changing and because the apostolic testimony must be attested in ever-new circumstances, it is a necessary feature of the apostolic tradition that it both guard the original testimony and...

In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu­ca­tion and dis­cus­sion, per­haps it was pos­si­ble to get on with a very few sim­ple ideas about God. But...

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power–worship.

For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. “Teo, I think you have to let Deu be the God he is, not...

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God’s blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich...

I love that there’s no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day is a new chance to listen longer and be braver and love more....

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there’s no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn’t fit me.

I don’t want to forget my origin: I’m an eternal spirit placed in a body put on this earth for only a short time to fulfill a purpose.

By eroding their sense of shame we’ve made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. …their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if...

Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. “I believe God created me in one day”....

Woe to him who doesn’t know this Christian faith is bourgeois.

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world...

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by...

I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don’t want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the...

When you don’t have the strength on your own. God has angels on assignment fighting for you. God has not forgotten about you. You’re coming out healed, restored and transformed in Jesus’ name.

A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.

The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.

I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign...

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my...

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up,...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based...

Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation … there has been only one—the triumph of Christianity —that can be called in the fullest sense a “revolution”: a truly...

be” its own unique unpredictably creative self.

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they’d have...

is written” are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If...

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

If pure philosophy took any of its ideas from Christian revelation, if anything in the Bible and the Gospel has passed into metaphysics, if, in short, it is inconceivable that the system of Descartes, Malebranche,...

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who...

What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

Just as man’s pride wishes to insert human actions and merits into the gospel, so that we can boast, at least a bit, in our own accomplishments (thus denying the sufficiency of God’s grace), so...

Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that’s the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the...

I wanna be so consumed with the love of Christ that it flows into every aspect of my life.

These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians...

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning – not home but the place through which...