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- I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is…
- To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.
- I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's…
- The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive…
- God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics…
- Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is…
- Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again,…
- Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or…
- The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The…
- Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
- In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
- The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The…
- I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more…
- Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood…
- Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film,…
- The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to…
- This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped…
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