The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.
The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
