The attempt to divide the world into tidy categories of oppressor and oppressed or victimizer and victim oversimplifies the more complex realities of histories and habits of sin and evil. While it is undeniably true that many people have suffered--and continue to...
The inherent legalism of the Western Church trains our eyes on Jesus' suffering as the judgment of God upon our sin & virtually blinds us to the more obvious point that Jesus suffered from the wickedness of humanity. It was the human race, not the Father, who...
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
Many are troubled because the gospel interferes with their sin.
It is only the infinite mercy and love of God that has prevented us from tearing ourselves to pieces and destroying His entire creation long ago. People seem to think that it is in some way a proof that no merciful God exists, if we have so many wars. On the contrary,...
The current situation, in which faith professed has little impact on the whole of life, is not unique to our times, nor is it a recent development. But it is currently at an acute stage. History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be...
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change;courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference.Living one day at a time;Enjoying one moment at a time;Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;Taking, as Jesus did,...
If most people toy around with the idea of sin long enough, they will eventually move into action. Whatever the sin, the movement from thought to action always happens at the same point: when the person finds an acceptable rationale or pretext to do it. Rationalizing...
I am ashamed for ever thinking that those of us within the church are somehow better than those outside the church. We’re all sinners.