The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus..

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place..

The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running int….

I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for u….

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are ina….

God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recip….

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith..

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals..

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience..

I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who lives one step above th….

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path..

Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utte….

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they ….

To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us--in freedom a….

This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard,….