I can remember every word he spoke; I hear them when I wake up, and before I go to sleep again. Each day, he talks to me, and each day I listen—even now that I am an old man.

Much evil has been committed in the name of religion when people are obsessed with spiritual purity and set up an authoritarian system to prevent spiritual contamination.

Frustration and anger arise out of expectations not being met.  Something ought to be, and it isn’t.  Is this something God experiences?

I believe there is a reason God leaves us in the dark when it comes to many of the things we struggle to understand.

What saved David? Under the law, he was condemned twice because he committed both adultery and murder. But Paul says that God’s righteousness, faithfulness, and steadfast love are more powerful than man’s sin...

The Psalms are Spirit-inspired prayers, expressing every kind of emotion I myself have. In them I can find expression of what’s in my heart. 

Paul is saying that the Judgment decision will be based on how we treat others. God will treat us how we treat others.

The Joneses believed in God, and taught their children stories from the Bible, even if they did not own a Bible. We don’t know if they got all their facts straight, since they had no Bible themselves, and could not read a Bible even if they had one.

God created man and woman in his image and likeness. That means we’ve been designed to manifest God in our lives. When it comes to the woman, what role does she primarily have in being such an agent of the Almighty God?

What kind of servant should we be? 

The Tabernacle was beautiful, in fact dazzlingly beautiful.  It only makes sense that the wood would be as beautiful as all the rest. But there’s an odd thing.  All of the wood was covered over!  Not one bit of it was visible. 

If we aren’t reconciled to our brothers and sisters, does our religious activity even count for anything? The oneness, peace, and reconciliation associated with our relationships as brothers and sisters are right at the core of the gospel message.