Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens….

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilte….

The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is ….

The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply….

If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap..

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven a….

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to th….

What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity..

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day..

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes….

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather t….

If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to ….

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at….

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost th….

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out..

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree..

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love ….

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done..

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul..

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them..

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them..