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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….
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 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….
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….
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do..
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else..
Some things just have to be believed to be seen..
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories f….
God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the ve….
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world….
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But ano….
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires wit….
At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice..
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a gra….
Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's ….
In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love..
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it..
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace..
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view..
John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to….