Don’t let go, not now, not yet, but hold on tight, for I think we have more of a bumpy ride to come. Hold on to the hand of the Spirit. Hold on to your faith in justice and compassion. Hold on to the vision which has guided you all these years. Don’t let go, for the...
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
We have bowed too low for too long at the personal altar of individualism. We need one another. We need the church, the family of faith.
Jesus Christ did not get up out the grave and show us the way to love for you to exploit faith to win arguments and secure power. If that is your faith, you have lost Jesus.
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
We don't want to admit it but Christianity in America is far more than a faith--it's a market, a platform, a fan club, a motor block, an industry. Jesus would turn over so many tables here.
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and...
Don't confuse firm beliefs with deep faith.
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.
The resurrection took place apart from any eyewitness to it. This is how God works. God is the Mystery of the world, and if we are to have faith at all it will always be after the fact of God's invisible working. We get to see only after we don't see.