When one is driven to climb the ecclesiastical ladder it is easy to embrace a doctrinal position that removes half the competition — using the same Jesus-free method of selective extractions of scripture that justified slavery and other church-endorsed evils. Many...
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do. What if the gravel of a parking lot looks as promising to God as the floorboards of a...
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.