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...

To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened, and loved–yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the...

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

With the veil removed by the rending of Jesus’ flesh, with nothing on God’s side to prevent us from entering, why do we tarry without? Why do we consent to abide all our days just...

Joseph lost his son and Christ. (Joseph a perdu – Son fils et Jésus.)

Mark 12:34When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, ‘You are not far from the Kingdom of God.

The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the...

Your life isn’t determined by your mistakes, but by your determination to keep going despite of them.

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...

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only...

Jesus seemed to believe that the key to generosity wasn’t having more, but being content with what you already have.

He is Jesus, only. God has revealed Himself to us through Jesus. Jesus is what God wanted us to know and to love. He is not Napoleon the Great. He is not Alexander the Great....

Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least...

God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word!

Dare to make it to heaven and in doing so, carry many people along! Be a soul winner!

Whatever you dream, you can achieve it provided it is the will of God for you. Once the Lord Jehovah is in approval of it, just dream it; He placed the power in you to...

Principles are what people have instead of God.To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God’s or your neighbour’s sake the way a...

Jesus is the perfect name!He who put away his fame!And persecuted in shame!That you will never be the same!It’s because of you and I He came!Believe him or have yourself to blame!In the book of...

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine prayer, is to make as much room as possible, in...

Grace gives without with-holding even when the receiver is not aware of its sacrifices