A short list of questions we Christians need to be better about asking ourselves regarding our beliefs: How might I be wrong? How might the passion of my beliefs regarding an issue be causing me to ignore errors about my beliefs themselves? Do my beliefs about social...
When gentleness starts to sound like a weakness to us Christians rather than a fruit of the Spirit, that's when we know power has become an idol for us.
If I ever stand in a pulpit and insinuate that God's political views and mine are perfectly aligned, I can be very sure that I have downsized the Deity and shattered the second commandment, the pesky one about not creating idols.
Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not you, is an idol.
Any God who is mine but not yours, any God concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.
One of the gifts of the Old Testament is how faithful Israel was in recording their unfaithfulness. Israel could've erased all their sins, but they recorded their idolatry, oppression of others, and when they put words in God's mouth. Erasing a nation's sins isn't...
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.
Never think you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
One reason that the world finds the New Testament's message of peacemaking and love of enemies incredible is that the church is so massively faithless. On the question of violence, the church is deeply compromised and committed to nationalism, violence, and idolatry....
If you worship Christ as the Creator of everything, every cosmic speck across billions of light years of trackless space, the Creator of the textures, shapes and colors that dazzle our eyes: if you worship Christ as the Sustainer of all creation, who by his word holds...