It’s easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn’t call those who are unprepared...

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they...

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

I suppose it’s unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman’s joy at the sight of a superior performance.

Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer’s pilgrims want a place of man’s true home: paradise

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking...

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

There’s a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

‎Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers. It’s that simple. Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love...

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. … One thing you discover about spear throwers is that...

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it’s like to love like He loved. It is there, in our personal upper room, where we learn to...

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents’) focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee’s affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In...

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see...

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

This wasn’t a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don’t really like the big Kingdom if it...

You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes...

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, “in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that...

[Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn’t say “you *might* be my witnesses,” or “you *could* be my witnesses,” or even “you *should* be my witnesses.” He...

We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to...

Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations. It is the...

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn’t like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and...

Tasks don’t have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These...

So often, it’s others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

God called me there.” If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother’s clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it’s a measure of our maturity...

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

The game isn’t big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

I’m of the opinion and quite certain that our ‘personal histories’ with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures

The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a...

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...

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

(Taft’s mother’s) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their children too much.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to...

It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.

I can’t say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach ’em that way.