My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.
We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness
Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If God's existence were logically inescapable, there would be no free will to choose...
God knows what you need because all you need is Jesus who is God. Matthew 6:25-34.
The devil is a bad devil.
Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.
If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus . . . An unopened grave would never have...
Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene, the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible. A loving God...
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas...
The first miracle Jesus performed was instant winemaking. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one.
Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
Your relationship or lack of relationship with God through Jesus Christ continues after your last breath on this earth.
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselves as a member of an exclusive Heaven club.
I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality.
We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.
Only meditation on God's word is capable of changing our way of thinking.
It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.
There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live.
Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.
Christians, pray for an outpouring of God's Spirit upon a willful, evil, unrepentant world.
Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational...
Great praxis demands great piety.
Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians {and of Jews}. Within the context of...
Every child of God is not called by the Lord to establish schools and orphan houses and to trust in the Lord for means for them. Yet, there is no reason why you may not experience, far more abundantly...
Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to...
Aslan said Lucy you're bigger. That is because you are older, little one answered he. Not because you are? I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes - a time for men and women...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....