Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
Prayer is a place where God and humans meet..
I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible th….
Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul..
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit..
We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it tak….
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them..
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change..
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative..
God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us..
Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers..
Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deli….
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately….
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted ….
God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth..
Homeless people bear God's image too..
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words….
Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh….
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project..
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply,….
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman….
Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operat….