The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: “The church may not mix in politics.” he says. And I tell him that when you are a Christian and profess...

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.’ Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for...

Our God is vulnerable. He is.This might be striking to some. The prominent view of God is strong, mighty, courageous – not vulnerable. God?Vulnerable? God didn’t only hang naked on a wooden cross, and He...

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of...

There is always a spark before a drive. Don’t expect any miracle to occur in your life if you won’t avail yourself to be sparked by the Holy Spirit of God!

Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world’s sorrow, could be filled with so much fun...

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

God is always working in every detail of our lives to help us turn our heart toward him. The life we’ve always wanted is found in Jesus.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

The more we have of Jesus, the greater the love we have; the greater the love, the greater the sacrifice; the greater the sacrifice, the more we become like Jesus; the more we become like...

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they...

Sejam submissos ao bispo e também uns aos outros, assim como Jesus Cristo Se submeteu, na carne, ao Pai, e os apóstolos se submeteram a Cristo, ao Pai e ao Espírito, a fim de que...

No matter what you’re facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.

Rejecting Jesus Christ is like a fugitive who spends all day running but has nowhere to hide; you will face him after death. He is the only judge and jury.

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward...

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each...

momentary.” They only last for a short time.

And we’re not alone, you know, children,” came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. “All through the universe, it’s being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it’s a grand and exciting battle. I know it’s...

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus’ steps.

At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client’s back, as the three of us sat discussing our spiritual desires and ambivalence about religion....

God and Jesus are supernatural beings and a paranormal experience.

I did play Jesus in ‘Godspell,’ in high school, because I guess I’m a nerd.

If it’s not for Him, I guess I’d be dead few years ago.

Choosing one thing over another doesn’t necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don’t want to...

How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these...

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

God hijacks and bends evil to work peace and healing. If God were only a God of justice, He could punish evil but do no more. Only a God of grace can use our evil...

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from…from manifesting, as such. And billions don’t believe He existed at all. He is a legend, a myth. A Jewish carpenter people ignore while committing...

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

Jesus’ love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

Raise and Praise; it keeps the devil away!Feeling down? Start praising even if it is a sacrifice of praise. You will soon start feeling better because the devil will not stick around & praise God...

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not...

Isn’t the human body a miracle

I guess, first and foremost, I’d like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me also each great sin with greater graces.For even as I killed You,You made Yourself a...

Far from being a treatise meant to justify God’s righteousness in unconditional election, Romans 9–11 is a treatise about the incomprehensible mercy and scandalous faithfulness of God towards his creatures, through the crucified and resurrected...

Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.

Sin dies in us when we stay alive in Jesus Christ.

One of the reasons why most relationships struggle is because we salute the problem more than standing besides our loved ones. We honor the problem, glorify it, magnify it and worship it, until it breaks...

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)We talk about God’s Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory.

The resurrection of the body – what do we really mean by this? …Did not the mystics and sages of all times teach us that the positive meaning of death is precisely that it liberates...

To catch the dream you are chasing, change is required.

Maybe that’s why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity. I have my own differences with both of these savants, but is the...