Pride, which causes a person to believe he or she does not need God, is the very root of the fall.
With the knowledge of this love firmly in place, we can avoid slipping into the favor-earning pattern so typical of many relationships.
If the desire of God for the spiritual life of the believer is a deeper and deeper level of trust, this can only be accomplished through a deeper and deeper level of growth.
The greater the expectations for the relationship, the greater the potential of a dry season, and the greater the possible consequences.
The environment for this spiritual formation may include solitude, but its primary proving ground will be in community.
To follow Jesus is to be called to live in courageous faith.
Sin may satisfy temporal desires, but virtue satisfies our deeply felt divine longings.
The nature of God’s love means that nothing can be done to make God love a person more.
Holiness is not merely the changing of our status in heaven; it is acknowledging our love for God and our desire to look more and more like him.
The garden reveals the crux of our alienation from God, “the difficulty that the human heart and mind can have in genuinely trusting God as a wise creator and living accordingly.” (1) Embedded in the
We have been made by God and for God, and our fulfillment in life comes with our alignment with this truth of creation. Read more from David C. Long as he grounds the call to holiness in the foundational reality of being created in God’s image.
