How to Fix Communication

Figure out what went wrong, not who was wrong, when communication breaks down.

Clothed by God

Human beings generate shame; God covers it with a durable product that requires the shedding of blood. Human beings suffer a metaphysical chill; God warms ...

Christian Contradictions

A true Christian is a sign of contradiction--a living symbol of the Cross. He or she is a person who believes the unbelievable, bears the unbearable, ...

Forgiveness Is Better than Divorce

We've made adultery grounds for divorce. In actuality it's grounds for forgiveness.

No Hidden Sin

Do not expect God to cover what you are not willing to uncover.

Wycliffe on Absolution

There is no greater heresy for a man than to believe that he is absolved from sin if he gives money, or because a priest lays his hand on his head and ...

Life after Repentance

All of us, perhaps, are too ready, when our behaviour turns out to have appalling consequences, to rush out and hang ourselves. Sometimes we do worse, ...

That Grace May Abound

We need not "sin that grace may abound." We are sinners and need only to confess that grace may abound.

Dramatic Conversion

All Sins Swept Away:

A slave describes her delayed but dramatic conversion.

Jarena Lee (1783-c.1850) was one of the outstanding preachers in the African ...

Mercy on the Church

Nothing could more surely convince me of God's unending mercy than the continued existence on earth of the church.