Christ, be with me,Christ before me,Christ behind me,Christ in me, Christ beneath me,Christ above me,Christ on my right, Christ on my left,Christ where I lie,Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise,Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,Christ in the mouth...
Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and...
The invitation to work for social justice is one of the essential, nonnegotiable pillars within Christian spirituality... Social justice has to do with changing the way the world is organized so as to make a level playing field for everyone. In simple terms this means...
The miracle of Pentecost wasn't that everyone spoke the same, but that all were "understood" in their native tongue. The fulfillment of Gospel is not assimilation/uniformity to one culture, but rather togetherness and mutuality within diverse cultural expression....
We all need hope. No sparkling promises or wishes. No well laid intentions or plans. Hope. Four letters. Four letters that carry the weight of our whole world and all of our life hidden in the depth of their meaning. Whether we are waiting on a check to arrive, a door...
Remind us that the joy you giveis not in attaining but in releasingnot in storing but in letting gonot in getting everything we want butin giving all that we haveso that everyonemay be filled with good things.
They said that if I questioned a 6,000-year-old earth, I would question whether other parts of Scripture should be read scientifically and historically. They were right. I did. They said that if I entertained the hope that those without access to the gospel might...
Everyone around you; the people you share the grocery store line with, pass in traffic, sit next to at work, encounter on social media, and see across the kitchen table--are all experiencing the collateral damage of living.