Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
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….
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 self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood..
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itsel….
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world..
When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the a….
Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives." Nouwen changed ….
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the ou….
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedi….
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..
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't d….
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….
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular cul….
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs….
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes m….
Love is an overarching style of relating to another..
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics ha….