clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

Wherever you find a little study circle of Christian laity you can be almost certain that they are studying not St Luke or St Paul or St. Augustine or Thomas Aquinas or Butler, but (contemporary...

Bob Dylan’s Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone’s side in any Kulturkampf.

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

This is what the Apologists can teach us about the world, culture, and philosophy. The pendulum steadily swings between contempt and wonder. The aim is not compromise between these stances, rather we need both the...

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

Our task is to carry the Lord’s peace into every situation, into every duty.

She chose to look at her surroundings where they “think missionary” mind-set.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren’t always the same thing.

Where kairos is an event word—something that has a beginning and ending—repentance (metanoia) is a process word, as is believe (pistis). The Circle is a process, a way of living that does not have a...

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don’t find the consolation they want in spiritual...

Much of our understanding of God’s action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, “The Lord is in...

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order.” “What a task! He ought to have three heads.

Find the good, and praise it.

If you want religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. I am certain there must be a patent American article on the market which will suit you far better, but...

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent...

I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the...

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God’s Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

Many pastors would rather preach God’s Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on-one counseling ministry. Most pastors counsel because they have to, not because they want to.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus’ place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will...

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn’t allow failure to take root.

If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want...

Paraphrasing Plato’s Republic: “Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

At Gethsemane: “Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude with regards children in the raw as a sort of raw material which we must handle.

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what’s possible.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, “armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

watch out for schools that promise your kids will “experience success.” I’m teaching Plato’s Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

If the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind...

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.

Boethius moved from considering history from the actor’s point of view to a “timeless” eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God in the...

What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in communion and solidarity with Him, the Father also does for us, here and...

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you’ll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.

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

Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words...