In the last 50 years one of the most powerful things I have seen the Holy Spirit do in the life of the Christian Church lies in the...

In John 4 there is a famous story about Jesus meeting a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well in the city of Sychar. Jesus tells the woman,...

I read chapter 3 of John’s Gospel a few days ago and was struck by the last remark Jesus made to Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling...

After His resurrection from the dead, when Jesus asked his disciples to meet him in Galilee (see Matthew 28 below), Jesus was indeed...

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are...

The story of David and Goliath is one the best known in the Bible, but also in all of history and literature. One of the reasons for its...

Our word for God’s dramatic breaking beyond our ironclad rules and habits and sin is grace. Grace is God’s magnificent release from our...

I don’t know about you, but I think that all God appears to want from us is honesty and humility — and they are, for me, the same thing....

This text came into my life a week or so ago: “If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong...

When Mary, the mother of Jesus, told the servers at the wedding in Cana, “Do whatever Jesus tells you to do” (John 2:5), she spoke words...

In the spiritual life there is such a need to learn to be silent before God, meditating — or thinking deeply — on the presence of God. ...