Tension of Loving and Fearing God

Jerry Bridges, in his book The Joy of Fearing God, describes the healthy tension between loving and fearing God:

In the physical realm there are two opposing ...

Gandhi Can't Compare to Christ

Author Michael Green writes:

Only Jesus fully understands God the Father. Great people have discovered and taught many true and noble things about God. ...

Tozer Thirsts for God

Pastor and writer A. W. Tozer lacked even a high-school education, but he read the great Christian mystics and theologians until he could read and write ...

Knowing God's Acceptance

In his book, Connecting, Larry Crabb writes:

A friend of mine was raised in an angry family. Mealtimes were either silent or sarcastically noisy. Down ...

Common Spirituality

Spirituality in human beings is not an extra or "superior" mode of existence. It's not a hidden stream of separate reality, a separate life ...

Power of Curiosity

In For the Time Being, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard writes:

In Highland New Guinea, now Papua New Guinea, a British district officer named ...

Experiencing God

There is a splendid moment in the movie Jurassic Park, when world-class paleontologist Allen Grant, who has devoted his life to the study of dinosaurs, ...

God in the Storm

You think it is spiritually important to have free time to be alone with God; but I tell you, you will really get closer to him by embracing the Cross ...

Is God Good?

Douglas Burford, a pastor in Mission, Kansas, writes:

His name was David. He was homeless and in his 40s, though his face suggested even more years of ...

Jesus the Lion-Hearted

As I studied the life of Christ, one impression about Jesus struck me more forcefully than any other. We have tamed him. The Jesus I learned about as ...