She leaned down so she was looking right in my eyes. “You hear me, child. you can’t use other folks’ bad behavior to excuse your own. When we got a choice, we keep Jesus in...

[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

If Jesus was put to death by powerful elites protecting their turf, then the murder is only a historical or academic puzzle. But if those who knew Him best—His longtime admirers—were involved, everything changes. It...

I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.

But who is Aslan? Do you know him?””Well-he knows me,” said Edmund. “He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia.

Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed from a virgin, was of itself mortal and, like other bodies, liable to death. But the...

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

If you’re looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for the reason to continue you must fight for it.

You don’t fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

Jesus did not die just to save you from hell. He paid the price to give you all of heaven.

About the general connection between Christianity and politics, our position is more delicate. Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything...

You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking...

If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow...

I believe being a ‘gentleman’ goes well beyond holding the door for a girl and letting her go before you. It’s about being vulnerable for her. I think that when it comes to the way...

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop’s Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence...

Be willing to stand with God and be ready when the world judges you because of that choice. It’s better than to stand with the world for God to judge you!

Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they would certainly not be ‘Christian’ or ‘Jewish’ or ‘Muslim’ or...

Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role.

I ended up going into this big art historical argument.’ [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century for a monastery where monks cared for people with skin diseases—so...

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it… Let us rejoice in Him in all His fulness and in Him alone.

Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.

As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To know Jesus is to love Him.

To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy.

Sede, portanto, surdos quando alguém vos fala sem Jesus Cristo, da linhagem de Davi, nascido de Maria, que verdadeiramente nasceu, que comeu e bebeu, que foi verdadeiramente perseguido sob Pôncio Pilatos, que foi verdadeiramente crucificado...

God out of His own will expresses and manifests Himself in the human body and not to be obtained by self-exertion. The question may rise what others will do? The answer is the life of...

Do not be afraid to preach the gospel; Jesus Christ was not afraid to die on the cross.

Not only is diversity allowed within the People of God; it is expected.

Jesus is the answer to the longing of every human heart. The love of his heart is the only love capable of filling our human longing—because it is human, yet infinite, and because it is...

I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to take risks and not beat ourselves up when we fail. He...

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter...

If anyone can be trusted, it’s the Savior. He’s always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right. … He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned—even though it’s tough...

The secret to following God’s will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God’s best.

Not afraid to write about my past to inspire your future

We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can’t be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don’t save yourself. It is...

‎”Well, It’s just painful to see them without nothing to eat and at the same time no God. So let’s share our food and our God.

He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I’m going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn’t…that’s the thing: I’ve read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says....

Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral banquet. Where...

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago… the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I...

We are a generation of lovers who long to be loved. We spend exorbitant amounts of money to compel others to delight in us. We construct our ideal life on Facebook because we are unsatisfied...

Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?

‎If we do not know the King that comes to your bedroom for the sole purpose of taking out your trash, then you have yet to know Jesus as the Servant of All.

Does that mean,’ said Mack, ‘that all roads lead to you?”Not at all.’ Jesus smiled as he reached for the door handle to the shop. ‘Most roads don’t lead anywhere. What it does mean is...

Jesus incarnated when our Western civilization was changing from being predominantly baby soul to predominantly young. We are now in a similar transition, from young to mature.

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present...