Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not g….
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost..
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and ….
I would far rather convey grace than explain it..
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of gr….
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive..
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet..
Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty w….
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less.
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part..
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort..
We respond to healing grace by giving it away..
Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature but "up" to God, who co….
Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse..
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, bu….
As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "han….
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we….
The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace..
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….
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the f….
The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ulti….