Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times...

Paul tells us that, “The wages of sin is death.” That’s the bill. Our choice to sin has created a barrier between us and God, taken a toll on our relationship with Him that we...

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their...

Getting stuck can be the best thing that could happen to us, because it forces us to stop. It halts the momentum of our lives. We have no choice but to notice what is around...

Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was...

When one is down due to trials on earth evil sees an opening to attack. You with God are more powerful than satan ~ every time.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Loving Jesus is what’s most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it’s the truth.

Misunderstood! It is a right fool’s word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise...

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble

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.

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!

I grew up believing Christians didn’t just believe in Jesus. To be saved, people had to look and speak a certain way. They followed a long list of nots to ensure their holiness. They fit...

Like many others who have gone into prisons and jails with us, Chuck and Carol Middlekauff demonstrate what our ministry is all about. We train Christian ‘teammates’ to share the good news and love of...

I recommend to you Jesus Christ, the unchanging One. I recommend to you God’s answer to your questions, God’s solution to your problems, God’s life for your dying soul, God’s cleansing for your sin-cursed spirit,...

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and...

disciple” – but also perpetual Christ incarnators . . .

I’m Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don’t care.

Be patient and pray for God will make a way.

Lord Jesus, don’t let me lie when I say that I love you…and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.

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...