What does it take to draw near to God? It takes a perfect priest, a finished work, and a broken body to open the way. In short, it takes everything, which is exactly what Christ has given for you.
08/26/26
Christianity need not retreat from investigation. Its central claim is that the Word became flesh, entered history, was crucified, and on the third day rose from the dead. That is not an embarrassment to be overcome. It is the claim we have been given to declare and defend.
08/24/26
In the end, your story isn’t an epic of personal glory. You aren’t the hero. Your Savior Jesus is.
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06/12/15
No wonder that when young people grow up in a law-saturated, grace-dry church, they leave the faith by droves for all they’ve heard their whole life is a life they can never live up to.
06/09/15
His glory is made known precisely in the cross, His strength in weakness, His wisdom in folly, His exaltation in humiliation.
05/28/15
I once heard a grad school professor say that America really is a polytheistic nation since so many people believe in so many different gods.
05/19/15
Religious scholars of various allegiances have challenged this idea that all religions are saying the same thing.
05/14/15
In reality, Easter equals good news for you. And our world needs some good news. Maybe we’re not even sure what’s wrong, but we know this world is broken.
05/12/15
Asking whether one's beliefs are the right ones is terrifying.
05/05/15
His name’s Jacob. He’s not my first choice. I don’t care for Jacob. Never have. He’s got too much of me in him. He’s a liar and a cheat.
05/05/15
Bloody, bruised, and burnt out—our friends, family members, and coworkers are walking out of churches, giving up on God’s family, and at the same time giving up on the message that the Church has been entrusted with.
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04/23/15
She had obviously heard about Jesus previously, maybe even from off-handed comments or even rumors. Her daughter was sick so she sought the gossiped-about Jesus as he was leaving for Tyre and Sidon.
04/21/15
It is Tolkien's adept ability at combining imagination with Sub-Creation to give his fictional world of Middle-Earth that ‘inner consistency of reality’ which points to the truth of the Gospel.
04/16/15
Why do many Christians dislike apologetics? Because difference makes sectarians and xenophobic people gag.
04/02/15
Instead of answering this question theoretically, perhaps it will be easier to illustrate the problem of understanding God through our human speculation by considering the legend of St. George and the Dragon.
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