Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.
For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life. ” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.
When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.
Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.
An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.
The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.
Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.