Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause.….
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, n….
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God..
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves..
The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been ….
There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of ….
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you ar….
Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Lovin….
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artisti….
Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayer….
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family..
Love deems this world worth rescuing..
God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body be….
It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn..
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator..
The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came ….
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples -….
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism..
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer only t….
We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination..
God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?.