As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.