Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be..

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling..

Atheism thrives on bad religion..

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. B….

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's ho….

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires..

Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down a….

Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not ….

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations.

In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own ….

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and gett….

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..

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us..

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….

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him..

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil..

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….

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God..

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see..

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil..

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths..