My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God’s love I’ve ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength...

God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited...

The most important lesson that we’re supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don’t learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning....

There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency...

Do not view the Lord as your temporary solution; see Him as your eternal Savior.

There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh will tell you that God is against you, that you have...

But God’s love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression,...

Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his redemptive will in history. God is seeking out sinners; he is inviting them...

This is God’s beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you!

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it,...

When we say to people, ‘I will pray for you,’ we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern. But when we...

It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his.

The phrase, “American Dream”, a lifestyle approach that doesn’t require God’s power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams.

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular...

George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing...

Just as some of Jesus’ first-century followers could not credit the presence of the risen Christ, so our own blindness, habit, and fear form a kind of constant fog that keeps us from seeing, and...

God almighty, Franny,” he said. “If you’re going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all wrapped up in one. Keep...

The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can!

You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness — it’s perfect.

Your call is clear, cold centuries across;You bid me follow you, and take my cross,And daily lose myself, myself deny,And stern against myself shout ‘Crucify’.My stubborn nature rises to rebelAgainst your call. Proud choruses of...

My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

Pop stars AREN’T cool. Cheating on your husband or your wife isn’t cool. Having no modesty with your body and no self-respect is NOT cool. It doesn’t matter how pretty someone’s voice is, or if...

The law was good, Paul wrote, and its purpose vital. But its purpose was also temporary. Once Christ fulfilled the law, his followers would have trivialized his sacrifice by living as though they were still...

Exchanging life with Jesus Christ as taught by Jesus and His designated witnesses is not following a set of laws, rules, codes, principles, disciplines, scripts or cookbook formulas in our own power in an attempt...

My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.

Nem o cenário alternativo da Páscoa proposto por Lüdemann, no qual Pedro e Paulo experimentaram fantasias geradas pelo luto e culpa respectivamente, nem a alternativa de Crossan, na qual um grupo de escribas cristãos começou,...

…love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

I’m less interested in proselytizing or a bigger tent for its own sake than in issues of human flourishing. What are the best conditions in which people live and flourish? It’s more the, How do...

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God’s love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off...

The priest’s work, the priest’s service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God’s desire at Sinai – that everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving...

Unfortunately when I’m on my death bed I believe I’ll be like most people and still looking for Jesus. And yes I’ve checked my sock drawer.

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.

The gospel announces that God doesn’t relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus’ feats for us.

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn’t be free.

Shaking his head to clear away the memories, he rose to pull the net from the water. it broke the surface just as the first rays of sunrise began to paint the edge of the...

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is...

Skills do not qualify or disqualify any of us from our purpose.

But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and...

The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box we call a coffin, the box is our past and, just as assuredly,...

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God’s transforming...

The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the ‘gospel’ or good news which the Christians brought: what we call the ‘gospels’, the narratives of Our Lord’s life and death, were composed later for the benefit of...

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made holy in the image of Jesus. When you quietly serve a person in need, you are...

When we bring it all back to ‘Just Jesus’ it is amazing how much grace God can work in and through our lives.

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Today you are planting seeds to your dream. Be patient because it will be a large harvest.

You may bend, but you will not be broken.