Of all the things Satan could've used to destroy Christ, he decided to tempt Jesus with the Bible. In the same way, Satan will attack Christianity by tricking people into believing they're "being biblical" when in reality they aren't being Christlike at all. To be...
We Christians can be sure that we are listening to Caesar more than Jesus when our political witness looks more like a sword and a gavel than a washbasin and a cross.
When Jesus was taken to be executed on the cross, 11 of the 12 men abandoned him, but the women stayed. When Jesus’ body was buried, the women were the first ones at his grave. When Jesus rose from the dead, the men were hiding, so the women announced his...
To follow Jesus, his disciples deny themselves as part of self-mortification--not cultural assimilation. They pick up a cross--not a flag.
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
For people to truly hear what we say about Jesus they must first see that we live like Jesus. from The Heart of Revelation
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.
Twelve-Step spirituality rediscovered the real transformative power that is the core of the Gospel. It is the spirituality of imperfection that Jesus taught, Paul clarified, Francis and Clare lived, and Thérèse of Lisieux brought to light for the modern world....
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.