Salvation can never come from crosses only. Salvation can only come from a cross whose incumbent hanging there has some kind of a future. Salvation has to come from somebody whom a cross cannot hold. It has to come from someone of whom a cross cannot dispose....
The Bible is far more than a doctrinal guidebook. God’s Word generates life, creates faith, produces change, frightens the Devil, causes miracles, heals hurts, builds character, transforms circumstances, imparts joy, overcomes adversity, defeats temptation, infuses...
There are many religions, many beliefs, but only one faith. We can (and must) learn to take our faith more seriously than the beliefs in which that faith has found expression up till now. The present calls for a different expression, if faith is to have a future....
We are never at home with ourselves until we have come to be what we know ourselves to be inside. And what we are inside, we are born with and meant to unleash. But all too often—for social approval or fear of risk or neurotic self-doubt or quick gain—we have learned...