Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you" {NKJV}. Just

You may have some major strongholds in your life that need to be broken. Let me encourage you by saying, "God is on your side." There is a war going on, and your mind is the battlefield. But the good...

Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not merely his own interests, but also each for the interests of others. Philippians 2:4

Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddha held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus...

But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from...

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the...

God is what you do, not what you believe in.

No one is useless who can pray, my sister.

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

I am moved by fancies that are curled around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; The worlds revolve...

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

… anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.

As Buddha said, All that we are is determined by our thoughts.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us. . . . For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not...

The Mormon definition of life makes the earthly sojourn basically an educative process. Knowledge is necessary to mastery, and the way to deification is through mastery, for not only does education...

... only one deaf God, who cannot see, remains - claiming all of creation as His own. If people would invest one hundredth of their devotion to this God in the living brothers and sisters amongst whom...

They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So

My uncle is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.

The book of Psalms has been and still is the irreplaceable devotional guide, prayer book, and hymnal of the people of God. The Hebrew title is "the book of praises" {tehillim}.

The wicked go through life thinking only of getting, but God's people go through life thinking of giving, of sharing with others, and of showing mercy. God has blessed us. We have inherited everything...

Isaiah 55:1 describes salvation as God's gift, yet refers to buying: Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and...

The peace that God gives is not subject to the vicissitudes of life. It is a spiritual peace; it is an attitude of heart and mind when we believe and thus know deep down that all is well between...

The real Holy Spirit is not an electrifying current of ecstatic energy, a mind-numbing babbler of irrational speech, or a cosmic genie who indiscriminately grants self-centered wishes for health and...

God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow - and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21

A true leader not only demands submission; he is an example of submission by submitting to the Lord and to those in authority over him. Everything

I have come to realize that all the saints I've known have been accidental ones - people who inadvertently stumbled into redemption like they were looking for something else at the time, people who...

Purity most often leads to pride or to despair, not to holiness. Because holiness is about union, and purity is about separation.

Pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "Beautiful boys."