I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people… — Mark Galli Chorus Copy Share Image
“The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in… — Mark Galli Church Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading… — Mark Galli Cheesy Copy Share Image
“What we feel and how we feel is far more important than what we think and how we think. Feeling is the… — Mark Galli Anger and fear Copy Share Image
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. — Mark Galli Christian Copy Share Image
“For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises… — Mark Galli Church Copy Share Image
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom," says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most… — Mark Galli Change Copy Share Image
I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who… — Mark Galli Bible Copy Share Image
God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it… — Mark Galli Demand Copy Share Image
“In our desire to be real we start thinking that authenticity is another word for spontaneity, as if everything we say at… — Mark Galli Authenticity Copy Share Image
“By participating in the liturgy, we’re doing more than “attending a service.” We are entering a story—a story in which we also… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place. — Mark Galli Freedom Copy Share Image
“If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be… — Mark Galli Body of christ Copy Share Image
The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a… — Mark Galli Children Copy Share Image
“But the resurrection without the crucifixion is empty optimism, an optimism that gives credence to Freud's notion that wishful thinking is the… — Mark Galli Crucifixion Copy Share Image
This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of… — Mark Galli Burning Copy Share Image
“The preached Word is an event that creates hearers; through preaching, the Word comes alive in hearers’ lives. When this happens, the… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief… — Mark Galli Belief Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of… — Mark Galli Believe Copy Share Image
The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road.… — Mark Galli Anxious Copy Share Image
“We say we long for intimacy with God and others, and yet we structure our lives so that this becomes impossible. One… — Mark Galli Communion with god Copy Share Image
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many… — Mark Galli Belief Copy Share Image
“To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.” — Mark Galli Discipleship Copy Share Image
The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in… — Mark Galli Cost Copy Share Image
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