It's about participation in Christ and not substitution by Christ. And we...are invited to travel with Jesus through execution to resurrection. The Last Supper is about bread for the world, God's justice against human injustice, a New Passover from bondage to...
When we celebrate Christmas we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the the galaxies into being, limited all power, and for love of us came to us in the powerless body of a human baby. My faith is based on this incredible act of love, and...
Religion is a person sitting in church thinking about kayaking. Spirituality is a person sitting in a kayak, thinking about God.
God gives us dominion over the earth, not domination.
But the whole question of course is not "What attracts and would help me?" but "Where can I serve God best?"--and usually the answer to to that is, "Where He has put me." from Letters--------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: But the whole question...
The deepest things I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.
And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus,...
A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relationship with God. We read our chapters, have our short...
We are not just made by God. We are made of God.
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...