Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.