Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because th….
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution..
We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?.
Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger..
... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the….
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 ….
Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands..
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himse….
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagiu….
We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness..
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others..
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed..
... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves..
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away..
Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward..
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love..
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive..
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will..
Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairne….
Release what is good..
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..