The entire spiritual experience of God’s people is inseparable from regular and close study of the Bible.

Every injury takes something irreplaceable. Vengeance keeps the wound from healing, makes sure it bleeds. Mercy turns wounds into scars.

16 June 2024   Mark 4:26-34 “Of its own accord the land yields fruit….” Mark 4:28    Well, not quite.   There are plenty of places where...

The Church of Jesus Christ is your only hope if you don’t want to make peace with mendacity, but it is a demanding sort of hope.

When the chips are down nobody yearns for someone, some church that is merely “nice.” We want true believers in all their oddness.

If there is a way out of hell, it begins with Jesus. It ends with Jesus, too.

If the Beatitudes are platitudes, that may be because you are not intentional enough yet to be startled by them.

This radical mercy means that Jesus already loves the people who hurt us, and He wants them as much as He wants us.

The only requirement for divine mercy is to want mercy, and believe that Jesus has it to give. Period.

Do we think that there is nothing left about Jesus that is really surprising, that it has all been fully known, considered, written?