Many people define sin as the sum total of acts which they themselves do not commit.
01822 – Definition of Sin?
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01820 – Hope & Love are Everywhere in Our Lives
The signs are all around us. We can see them springing up like wildflowers after the prairie rain. People who had fallen asleep are waking up. People who had been content to watch are wanting to join. People who never said a word are speaking out. The tipping point of...
01818 – Books that Teach
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been...
01812 – Survival: a Gift & a Charge
The friend standing next to me at the firing predictor was torn to pieces by the bomb that left me unscathed. That night I cried out to God for the first time: "My God, where are you?" And the question "Why am I not dead too?" has haunted me ever since. Why are you...
01802 – Longing for Relationship
At the heart of each of us is a compelling hunger for ways to live and be in relationship that are genuine. Too often we choose ways that enslave rather than free us, and so it is with churches as well. What the world longs for are people and churches who have found...
01800 – What’s in the Bible?
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
01778 – What’s More Important than People?
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. from "A Revolution of Values"
01777 – People Who Find God
The people who find God are usually people who are very serious about their quest & their questions, more so than being absolutely certain about their answers.
01773 – People of Equal Talent
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
01766 – Staying Calm
To stay calm is to be so aware of yourself that your response to the situation is not to the anxiety of the people around you but to the actual issue at hand. from Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory