Grace: Free but Costly

In Decision, Karen R. Morerod writes:

I was in a store shopping for a sweater. The cost needed to be minimal, so I went to the clearance rack to start ...

The Cross, Not the Scales

The repeated promises in the Qur'an of the forgiveness of a compassionate and merciful Allah are all made to the meritorious, whose merits have been ...

All End in the Cross

Suffering is the heritage of the bad, of the penitent, and of the Son of God. Each one ends in the cross. The bad thief is crucified, the penitnent thief ...

Take Up Your Cross

When Jesus said, "If you are going to follow me, you have to take up a cross," it was the same as saying, "Come and bring your electric ...

The Role of Women in the Gospel

Woman--last at the cross, and earliest at the grave.

Real Cross-Bearing

To deny self does not mean to deny things. It means to give yourself wholly to Christ and share in His shame and death. To take up a cross does not mean ...

The Gospel Is a Risky Business

The story we're called to tell and live and die by is one of risk confronted, death embraced. What's more, Jesus calls us to walk the narrow way, ...

Was Jesus a Failure?

I think we need to be constantly reminded that Jesus, by the standards of cultural success models, was a miserable failure.

Confronting the Issues

I met with a young business-lady last week. I pointed out these Scriptures to her, and she said, "You mean to say that Jesus Christ wants me to confront ...

Crossing Over Without the Cross

We are ... talking about crossing over. ... The term serves perfectly to describe a fact that hit me some seasons ago with the force of revelation. For ...