God's Nature/Our Nature
“Being renewed by God’s power, we become partakers of the divine nature. This does not mean we become divine by nature. If we...
Repentance
“…repentance does not fundamentally mean to feel guilty about our past sins, nor even merely to cease from sinning in the future....
Challenges and Choices
“So it is with everything that the Lord asks us to do in His Name. Wherever there is the call to serve, there will also be challenges to...
Witnessing
“Effective witness requires that we first learn to rely on the Spirit to help us….You can’t witness effectively by relying on your own...
Character and Choices
“All of life’s choices have consequences, consequences for ourselves and consequences for the world around us. And when we fall into the...
Church
“The Church is not merely a refuge from the troubles and sorrow of the world, though it can be that. Its real purpose is to equip us to...
Community, Individualism and How to Live
“For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? (1...
Faith, Trust, and Belief
“When we separate faith from everything else, we make it into belief. It becomes the assent to the truth of something that cannot be...
Christianity
“Reading the Scriptures, studying the church fathers, attending worship, praying, and meditating are all good and godly things. But they...
Purpose
“Each of us is born into this world with an instinctive desire to find meaning and purpose in our lives…I say, as do all Christian men,...