Sometimes we must let the hard truth do its hard work in us. That’s the path to maturity.
Jesus challenges the value system of the world, with its decisive pecking order, status orientation, and power structures.
What if these present departures on marriage are actually a fruit of the former allowance for divorce made by Moses?
We are to be like Jesus, which means, when it comes to brothers and sisters sinning against us, we are to become people of unlimited mercy.
Open, persistent sin is a sure path to destruction for the sinner and damage to the entire community.
God care so deeply for us that he enters into our lostness and leaves the ninety-nine behind to find his one lost child.
Those who give themselves and their time and their resources to seeing after the welfare of children are doing some of the most important work in the Kingdom of God.
Jesus is the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. To encounter Jesus is to encounter the Kingdom.
The King went to the cross to pay his children’s tax debt—the insurmountable debt of sin—once and for all.
The difference between sympathy and empathy is moving toward “sharing in the fellowship of Jesus’ sufferings.”
It is Jesus, not faith, that works miracles. We must move our faith away from having faith and put it back in Jesus himself.
Jesus is the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. To encounter Jesus is to encounter the Kingdom.
