The purpose of the local church is not primarily to be one’s church home or extended family, though it can be at times. And it is not to survive by obtaining more people for its...

God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me

A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the same invisible life...

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

The original Christians regarded the deposit of faith, as finally inseparable from the very living substance of the Gospel in the saving event of Christ crucified, risen and glorified, but as once and for all...

It’s time we capture our imaginations for Christ

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church – read on – and give his life for her (Eph. V,...

She gives me the finger and turns back around. “Did you see that?” I flinch at the gesture. “That is completely illegal in here.

I see no reason why church services have to be standard. I’ve discussed this with the man who used to be a pastor here at the Methodist Church in Sebastopol. I told him I saw...

And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, any attack even on the least of men is an attack on Christ, who took the form of...

Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of...

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know...

The Lord doesn’t want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which...

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I’m always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I...

For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ’s death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been...

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that...

Actually, what we really need to remember about Galileo is that most of the people who use his name in argument could barely spell it, let alone tell us what actually happened to the man....

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...

My mind is my own church.

Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame and went in continually.And the angels were puzzledTo know why the people went thus,And why they stayed so long...

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel’s fatal mistakes was their insistence on having...

The Way” formed by the words and way of Jesus.

Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has...

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know...

You telling me God love you, and you ain’t never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the choir, feed the preacher and all like that?But if God love me,...

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory… Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It...

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Deception is nowhere more common than in religion. And the persons most easily and damningly deceived are the leaders. Those who deceive others are first themselves deceived, for not many, I think, begin with evil...

Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience within the context of the Church. It is ‘a personal history which is...

We see sacrifices on the altar but God sees blood splashed on the walls of the altar

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

Love is a heart smile.

If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel.

The Church needs young people because they have vision for the future of the church.

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There’s a plenty of signs. He is getting belittled to...

Over the years of being stuck in this shit hole called life, I had debated religion and church, souls and freewill, heaven and hell. I had come to a few conclusions. Mankind was too self-serving...

High heels are a short (theist) woman’s (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that...

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins…

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it’s a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as...