Over the last ten years or so, I’ve rarely read a book all the way through. I’ve given most books the college- or seminary-read; I read them just enough to get the point and most of the details then put them down and move on to another. Both college and grad school required that I...
Our culture divides people into two classes: civilized men, a title bestowed on the persons who do the classifying; and others, who have only the human form, who may perish or go to the dogs for all the “civilized men” care. Oh, this “noble” culture of ours! It speaks so piously of human dignity and...
“I used love like money, but love doesn’t work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love its enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.” [Don Miller, Blue Like Jazz] When we are passive-aggressive, we tend to make...
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs...
