Some things just have to be believed to be seen..

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do..

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and t….

Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and….

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else..

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of lov….

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back..

When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus….

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks..

If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are 27, there aren't that many where you walk in….

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book o….

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theo….

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it ….

Love is an overarching style of relating to another..

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue..

Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands..

God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just a….

Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment..

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a ….

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm..

Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest, as happened….