No Condemnation now I dread,Jesus, and all in Him, is mineAlive in Him, my Living Head,And clothed in Righteousness Divine,Bold I approach th’ eternal Throne,And claim the Crown, through Christ my own

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ; it is only when one loves life and the earth so much that...

For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is...

He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.

That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they’re blue in the face...

In times of suffering, don’t turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.

Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don’t trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said “Shake the soil off your sandals”! What are you waiting for?...

… when we are talking about ‘Christians’ and ‘Moslems’ we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the...

Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation He will descend in...

It’s your job to tell others about Jesus, about what He’s done in your life and what He can do in theirs, but you can never make someone believe, no matter how strong or pure...

Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.

When your faith is sinking, drown your fear

In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, ‘You repeat Satan’s temptation, whenever you admire the wonders of science, and forget that I am the Author of the Universe and...

Bad Jesus or good Jesus?”, but Flower had already used almost half her allotted words on Dove’s predicament. She felt guilty asking for more.

When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward – in a word,...

He died and rose again. Thats why now he lives in me and you. If you can use anything Lord you can use me. I am just a vessel.

The Holy Spirit never draws attention to Himself. He always points to and reveals Jesus.

Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said all along that those ceremonies are pagan and we can’t do that. Our...

The God of Christians raped mother of his messenger according to their manifest; later, their followers’ burned and tortured women like their fellow delusional God. The God of Muhammad hated women; he considered them half...

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not “a little bit of love,”...

Her model of self-control with food is why I have never had an issue in this area. Praise God for my mom’s good example in how to eat.

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable,...

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.

On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb;Having finished on the sixth day all his work of joy and doom.Now the Word had fallen silent, and the water had run dry,The...

I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. ‘See how...

It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and...

Pilate’s skeptical sneer “What is truth?” was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world’s stupidest question was three words; God’s profoundest answer was one Word.

Those who did know Jesus – those who followed him into Jerusalem as its king and helped him cleanse the Temple in God’s name, who were there when he was arrested and who watched him...

Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn’t it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn’t following...

Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have...

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I’ve always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America–we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his...

Christian consciousness experiences itself in a curious sense as LIBERATED TO FAIL, without intolerable damage to self-esteem and without any reduction of moral seriousness. We are free to be inadequate, free to foul things up,...

God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with...

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

I finally knew… why Christ’s prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not...

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ.

When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus… will abandon him with their lives.

When Jesus walked the earth He could not please everyone. What makes you think you can?

New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to ‘make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015’. He added: ‘I am Ed, the Almighty One.’Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: ‘Now I know how Wayne Christ...

Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal...

Believe in the promise of today, and have hope in the possibilities of tomorrow

Don’t give someone the credit for holding you back. Give yourself the power in continuing to move forward.

Jesus is not a religious leader; He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations.