Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

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.

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.

Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with

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.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.