The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from Go….

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray..

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else..

This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stu….

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying..

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, a….

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center..

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hide….

The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what….

In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this d….

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in th….

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors….

Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy depen….

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God..

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are..

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace..

Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relatio….

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a g….

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived..

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a draw….