Holy Spirit
“If we try to describe our perception and experience of the Holy Spirit, we will quickly realize that human words are not enough for...
Enemies
“To love persons is not to love their crimes. To love a human is to love a creature of God; to love crimes is to pursue the inventions of...
Pure Heart
“…he who loves God from a pure heart is given knowledge from Him (1 Cor. 8:3); he often knows God just like, or even more than a learned...
Intercessory Prayer
“Intercessory prayer “in behalf of all and for all” is a deliberate and decisive act of those individuals who have been baptized into...
Purity
“…the Lord taught that the purity that the Jewish Law sought to preserve does not come from outside ourselves. It comes from the inside,...
Kingdom of God/Heaven
“The mystery of the Kingdom of God is made known to a heart that asks, that seeks, that knocks. It is a heart that has returned to the...
Rebellion
“That first human sin was about turning away from God. He had explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat of that tree, and yet they did it...
Transcendence and Immanence
“Many people, because they’ve written God and Christ out of their lives, think that their existence has been enclosed within the stifling...
Poem/Poet/Poetry
“Our experience of God from the beginning is that God is creative. Many scholars think Genesis 1 is meant to be a poem, and the Greek...
Thoughts and Feelings
“The abstraction that we call “thinking,” etc., in the contemporary world is a diminishment of what it means to be human. We have learned...