Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice.
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse..
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could no….
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God..
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way..
Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near.
I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of l….
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love..
A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment….
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy..
I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will..
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love..
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair..
I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temp….
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community..
I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not b….
The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary..
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment..
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can trans….
Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else..
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for p….