Dark and terrible as is this picture, I hold it to be strictly true of the overwhelming mass of professed Christians in America. They strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Could anything be more true of our churches? They would be shocked at the proposition of...
You believe God looks at us from above, but He actually sees us from the inside.------------------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: You believe God looks at us from above, but God actually sees us from the inside.
We are not as time-bound as we might think: since prayer gives us access to a trans-temporal God, prayer lifts us out of our temporal existence and enables us to participate in God’s trans-temporal existence. Einstein’s remark that "the distinction between past,...
Pride, by definition, is the exaltation of self above rightful authority. Small wonder that Christian theology has traditionally regarded pride as the deadliest of the deadly sins, for it alone among sins denies that God is God. Pride does not merely disobey God....
I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
The Church is God saying, "I'm throwing a banquet, and all the mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine."
According to Matthew, the whole grand experiment hangs on what happens with Joseph... The child is Joseph's until he says otherwise...the issue at stake is not a biological one but a legal one... Will he believe the impossible and give it a home or will he stick with...
Any love is ultimately love of God. No love can be in competition with love of God; it is merely a different expression of it . . . the deeper, the more passionate any love, the more truly it is the love of God.
Death and resurrection. It’s the impossibility around which every other impossibility of the Christian faith orbits. Baptism declares that God is in the business of bringing dead things back to life, so if you want in on God’s business, you better prepare to follow...
A person should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human...