Post tagged with God

  • Thoughts on Advent (and Christmas)

    December 07th, 201005:28 PM ET
    By Jeff Goins
    We evangelicals don't do a very good job of celebrating Advent, something many mainline denominations and the Catholics have been doing for quite some time now. But recently, I've fallen more in love with the liturgical calendar. I've come to relish the importance of the seasons of Advent and Lent and the symbolism they represent. I love that they...

  • Is Christianity About Going to Heaven?

    October 13th, 201011:05 PM ET
    By Jeff Goins
    Lately, I've been hearing people talk a lot about Christianity in terms of dying and going to heaven. It's especially prevalent from the evangelical pulpit. You hear things like, "When we go to heaven..." or "In heaven..." -- phrases that are usually followed by some great human conflict resolved. But I'm struggling with this paradigm. I fail to s...

  • Jesus and the Good News about Suffering

    June 18th, 201009:56 AM ET
    By Jeff Goins
    It's about time that we in America were a little more honest -- about life and about our spirituality. Let's face it: life is hard. There are lay-offs and kids with runny noses and sleepless nights and stupid bosses. This should be no surprise to you that times can be tough. No, that's not to say that every day is an insurmountable challenge to o...

  • Ultimate Citizenship

    June 17th, 201003:48 PM ET
    By Michael Youssef
    Like millions of people before me, I came to America to discover a new life. It has been some 30 years since I stepped off that plane in Los Angeles, but I will never forget that moment. Too, I vividly remember the day, seven years later, when I stood in a courtroom and pledged my allegiance to the United States of America, officially becoming a ...

  • She Shall Be Saved in Childbearing

    August 01st, 200901:58 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    Revival is coming to Kenya.  It isn't just something that's in the air; it's in their hearts. I listened to a lady from the U.S. as she told me how great the praise and worship services were in Kenya.  It's not the praise and worship that gets me excited -- it's the altar calls. In church after church, I have presented a message of re...

  • The Grasp of God

    May 21st, 200902:11 AM ET
    By Dale Garris
    There's something great and vast about Life that eludes me. Often we try to pierce the veil of this reality with feelings and emotions that are thrust out of our soul like spears into the night in an attempt to touch that ethereal something that barely escapes the fingertips of our soul. We call it searching for Truth, but the concept is always s...

  • Why Discomfort Is Not a Christian's Enemy

    March 29th, 200903:31 PM ET
    By Jeff Goins
    Today at church, we had a discussion about praying "dangerous prayers." A few people in the class admitted that they were afraid of asking God to do certain things in their lives, because they didn't trust him. This is a pretty bold and unapologetically honest group, so I appreciated the candor. We talked about how tough it is to trust God sometim...

  • Faith like a little Child: Real Children Need not Apply?

    March 17th, 200903:48 PM ET
    By Anthony Horvath
    Jesus said that unless you become like little children you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. In Mark 10:15 he says, "I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." Hyper-intellectuals on the atheist front perceive this approach as intellectual suicide. They see a passage like this as...
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