Jesus shed no one's blood but his own so that death would have no sting for us if we but trust what he’s done.
If there is no definition of what it means to be human, then life becomes disposable. That is what is happening in society today.
Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross.
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.
You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
Only if you are willing to pray sincerely for God’s will to be done and are willing to live the life apportioned to you will you see the breathtaking view of God that he wants you to have, through the windows he has placed in your life. You cannot always live on the mountaintop, but when you walk through the valley, the memory of the view from the mountain will sustain you and give you the strength to carry you through.
Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.
His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.
All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.
There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.
For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.
The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.