You're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of...
"Prosperity gospel" is saying certain principles, behaviors, practices, and obedience is necessary for God's blessing. If it's essentially "God wants you to do X and you (or your children) will be Y," that's a transactional relationship with God.
It is important for [African American] women engaged in the process of self-recovery to examine the way in which harsh critique was used to ‘check’ and police our behavior so that we can examine the extent to which we relate similarly to others. … To heal our wounds,...
Maturity is working through your trauma and not using it as a never-ending excuse for poor behavior.
I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills, spirituality pills, and morality pills, and flush them all down the drain. The church, by and large, has...
Every day in a hundred small ways our children ask, "Do you see me? Do you hear me? Do I matter?" Their behavior often reflects our response.
Jesus couldn’t have been clearer. Faith is love, inclusion, servanthood, submission. People will always turn against the vulnerable. But they don’t get to call their behavior “Christian.” Love means feeding.
When we encounter a belief system or behavior claiming to be “Christian,” we must ask: Does this produce love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in me and in the world? If the answer is no, then the Holy Spirit is not...
See all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a call for love.
The prodigal stayed away from his Father's house and endured pigpen poverty because he feared his actions had changed his identity from son to slave, only to return and find his fears had no basis in reality. Fear keeps us in a slave mentality and robs us of our very...