To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us--in freedom and with no strings attached--is a way to grant others a liberating gift.
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. - Mark Galli
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
- Mark Galli
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for u… - Mark Galli
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for u…
I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are ina… - Mark Galli
I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are ina…
The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus. - Mark Galli
The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.
God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recip… - Mark Galli
God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recip…
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith. - Mark Galli
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running int… - Mark Galli
The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running int…
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place. - Mark Galli
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals. - Mark Galli
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.
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