What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

You deserve every mountain falling. You deserve every ocean reaching. You deserve all creation crying out your worth.You deserve all of Heaven singing. You deserve every nation rising, but I have heard that what You...

Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for salvation. William argued holiness for these “second Sheep,” without whom there’d be no elect. You can...

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, ‘Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn’t make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That’s the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the...

Scientology is much more accepted in Hollywood than Jesus.

How you perceive The Father to be, determines what you believe you’ll receive from Him.”From “Freedom for LIFE -all of God, inside you

Be honest with the Lord. If you’re afraid, say so. If you’re feeling abandoned, tell Him. He already knows every sin you’ve committed and He loves you anyway. Confess honestly. Beg for help. Converse with...

This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive to modern man, brought up in the atmosphere of relativism, in which tolerance...

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey–searching for Jesus.

Give Jesus your heart, and he will fill it with his love. No one else can do that only God_ Bryan Guras

Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm–inner peace in the middle of chaos.

We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized to take the meal; one needed to repent to take the meal; one...

The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and...

For me to live is Christ and to die is gainPhillippians 1:21

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: “Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate...

You’re single not because you are not good enough for one, it’s that you’re too good for the wrong one.

As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to...

Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of ourselves. The stories we’ve never told. Some African tribes believe if you were...

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands, accept whatever he prescribes, and do whatever He...

Jesus was a pacifist.

We must acknowledge that all we have are, at times very differing, interpretations of what Jesus was all about-and these interpretations, as they are collected in the New Testament, have been written in particular situations...

Jesus sets the boundaries of God’s will. If it doesn’t look like Christ, then it’s outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.

if you want more of Jesus, give Him more of yourself

He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service–the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back...

Aside your dreams to improve your community, country and continent, dare to save a soul for God. Show compassion, show love… Feed hungry souls and let God be glorified!

Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of Jesus Christ distinguish between lasting joy and situational happiness. Fun and...

Life Consists Of Many Things But You Have To Do One Thing… And That Thing Is Living For God.Remember You Cant Do Many Things At Once.

Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.

Develop what you have. Project it to the world. God will put a star up there on you. Then the wise men will look for you as they looked for Christ. They are going to...

Ask the question, receive the answer; don’t ask the question, don’t receive the answer.

Guess what, Jesus loves to walk with us. He loves to be with us all the time—not just in the scheduled time or in the leftovers. The only change He wants is our hearts.Let’s change...

When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity – such as asking us to love Him above parents, to believe in Him even in the face of persecution, to be ready...

How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he’s...

I think that’s why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don’t get that, they feel as though they’re going to die. And so...

What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life.

When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mankind, and we diminish that, the gospel is diminished. And you cannot diminish the gospel without being...

Jesus was a good guy, he didn’t need this shit.

Jesus doesn’t come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and will settle for nothing less; He won’t settle for being an accessory, an...

Make peace with others. The only thing you can change about the past is the damage you may have done to relationships. You may need to make amends with some people and say sorry. Sometimes...

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that...

I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns.

Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)

All of us, some frequently, feel undervalued and unseen. Yet, our deepest pains are lessened in that moment of recognition that Jesus…gets it. That his own feet have walked through this very pain. May we...

Jesus says, “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.” He says, “The first shall be last and the last shall be first,” and infuriating things like “if you seek to find your life...

These religious types were the fans that Jesus seems to have the most trouble with. Fans who will walk into a restaurant and bow their heads to pray before a meal just in case someone...

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation; but within three days He cut His schedule in half to save you.