Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls..

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddlin….

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

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity..

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us..

What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and beco….

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to r….

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom..

At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that ne….

If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Convers….

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders..

Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elij….

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for un….

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low….

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in th….

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dange….

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading a….

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….