Occupation: Author Birth: September 30, 1941
In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One..
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see..
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not ….
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone..
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own ….
Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down a….
The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are..
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology..
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil..
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations.
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be free….
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surpr….
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and gett….
We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God..
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil..
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought..
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires..
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths..
To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... th….
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us..
Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him..