I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry. . . As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see. . . the Lord nailed to the cross.
The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.
To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us--in freedom and with no strings attached--is a way to grant others a liberating gift.
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.
What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.