What To Do in the Face of a Discipleship Fail
When self-confidence fails it gives rise to humility, and when God-confidence rises, boldness is born.
When self-confidence fails it gives rise to humility, and when God-confidence rises, boldness is born.
The Transfiguration of Jesus is a glimpse of the kingdom of heaven in-breaking to earth.
Trusting Jesus is not a transaction. It is a totalizing abandonment of oneself to God.
To say “Jesus is Lord” means to trust that the concerns of God also include God’s concern for me.
More than miraculous help for our particular situations, we need the reign and rule of the God of heaven and earth to be completely reinstated everywhere.
Faith is not blind. It’s a much deeper, richer, and ultimately clearer way of seeing.
We are told at the final judgment that one of the greatest ways we have of encountering Jesus on earth is through the presence of people who hunger.
The embrace of the gospel always leads, sooner or later, to the exclusion of sin and ultimately to the end of death.
Poverty of spirit comes from knowing one’s need of God.
The heart is what is broken in our human condition, and it is the focus of the Holy Spirit in the work of restoring us to the image of God.
God is not out to get us. God is out to help us. God is for us, not against us.
When the Holy Spirit goes to work it can get messy. It can be less than dignified in the eyes of sophisticated church people, but it can be a downright threat to the leadership.