Suffering
“Many believers today think that pain is the exception in the Christian life. When suffering occurs, they say, “Why me?” They feel as...
Worldview
“…modern believers may know that God is real, but He is real…only at defined moments. …In none of them is God steadily the dominant...
Church Unity and Division
“Unity is a difficult thing, perhaps the most elusive of all Christian realities…Unity has always been an American ideal, but uniformity...
Heart
“…I begin my day with prayer and some beneficial reading, opening my heart to the divine energies of the Holy Spirit. This is a sort of...
Church's Organic Nature
“The unity of the Body of Christ is organic. The Lord Jesus declares that “inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My...
Loving Others
“God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves…We need to...
Success
A “successful” parish can thus be judged by its well-managed conflicts and general tone of happiness. In its most crass examples, success...
Sin
“...sin is committed in three stages, namely, the suggestion of it, the pleasure experienced, and the consent…Our captivity to sin begins...
Direction
“If God directs the course of events at all then He directs the movement of every atom at every moment; ‘not one sparrow falls to the...
Stumbling
“A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way a Christian is not a man who...