I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Dear God, save us from The Church!

The Church is full of Hypocrites!” Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where...

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I’d be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn’t.

If you can’t PRAY for the peace your church, PROMOTE the Christian doctrines, PREPARE for every good work and PROVIDE for the expansion of the Church, you are just like the PEWS (table and chairs)...

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God’s work cannot be done without love.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

Election has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of individuals but refers instead to God’s way of saving nations. It was a major mistake of the Reformation to have decided to follow Augustine in...

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

We have taught this generation how to “market” the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to “preach” the Gospel.

But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power and discipline as inherently evil? Can we who claim to be disciples –...

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely...

You’re right, Ruth. You did screw up my career. You screwed it up good. Best thing you ever did, matter of fact. But you know something? It’s okay. Because if it was between the church...

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world … The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two:...

Christianity now is in crisis, and a large part because people have marketed it as a religion of good people getting better, when in fact it is religion a bad people coping with their failure...

Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.

We are the choice elected fewLet all the rest be damnedThere is room enough in hell for youWe won’t have heaven crammed!

This ain’t my first rodeo!”.~R. Alan Woods [1999]

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

One of the tragedies of current Christianity in America is that we have so few compelling illustrations of this life that Jesus lived and the type of radical community he came to create. Leading pastors...

Church has believed that parents probably wont’ assume responsibility for their own children’s growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a “drop-off” mentality....

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

In previous centuries, the Church was the great controller, dictating morality, stifling free expression and posing as conservator of all great art and music. Instead we have TV, doing just as good a job at...

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption...

…ask yourself, “Who’s getting the glory in this ministry?” You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won’t be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.

The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history.

Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!

Repentance is a result of God’s kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

Father, help me focus on my strengths and trust others to fill the gaps of my weaknesses”Every leader knows the skills in which they excel. They also are aware of those tasks that they maintain...

you are not afraid of worldliness. I do not mean that you are worldly. Far from it. But you have a talent for being all things to all men.

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

God love’s in the dark.

Think of (the Kingdom) like the sun. As it peeks through on a cloudy day, we do not say the sun has grown. We say, ‘The sun has broken through.’ Our view of the sun...

The mission of the church is to make the world a holy place.

God will save you!” treating him like the devil’s child.It was the first time I’ve ever doubted God. First time I’ve ever heard the terms ‘Gays, and ‘Queers.’ I went through a lot in my...

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‘lays out a line.’ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight,...

When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along...

The nails did not kill Him… It was the needs that did.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church’s testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

Opet krenem, vođena zvukom, idem u crkvu, idem iz očajanja, idem da se vidim s Bogom i ljudima, iako mislim da su vernici nevernici, jer ne veruju u ovaj svet, takav kakav jeste, nego u...

The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart,...

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.

God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly follows the biblical trend that God would choose the unexpected and the culturally...

I experienced one of the common miracles of the Christian life. Our spirits recognized each other.

But protest that priests are ‘no worse’ than other groups or than men in general is a dire indictment of the profession. It is surprising that this attitude is championed by the Church authorities. Although...