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Augustine opens the Confessions with a sentence that still names the human condition: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and…
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Augustine · Psalm 42
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John Newton captained slave ships. A storm at sea in 1748 began his conversion, but he did not leave the trade immediately — a fact…
Grace · Conversion · The Cross
Newton · Wilberforce
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William Wilberforce introduced his first bill against the British slave trade in 1789. It failed. So did the next, and the next. He…
Perseverance · Justice · Calling
Wilberforce · Galatians 6 · Hebrews 12
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer named the disease of a comfortable church: “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring…
Grace · Discipleship · The Cross
Bonhoeffer · Luke 9 · Romans 6
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Augustine opens the Confessions with a sentence that still names the human condition: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and…
Rest · Identity · Hope
Augustine · Psalm 42
Story
In the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie were packed into a barracks so infested with fleas…
Joy · Suffering · Prayer
Ten Boom
Story
After the war, Corrie ten Boom was speaking in a German church when a man came forward. She recognized him as a former Ravensbrück…
Forgiveness · Obedience · Grace
Ten Boom · Ephesians 4 · Matthew 6
History
John Newton captained slave ships. A storm at sea in 1748 began his conversion, but he did not leave the trade immediately — a fact…
Grace · Conversion · The Cross
Newton · Wilberforce
History
William Wilberforce introduced his first bill against the British slave trade in 1789. It failed. So did the next, and the next. He…
Perseverance · Justice · Calling
Wilberforce · Galatians 6 · Hebrews 12
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C. S. Lewis pictured mere Christianity as a hall. The hall is the shared faith: God made the world, Christ died and rose, we are…
Community · Faith · Calling
Lewis · Ephesians 4
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer named the disease of a comfortable church: “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring…
Grace · Discipleship · The Cross
Bonhoeffer · Luke 9 · Romans 6
Story
George Müller ran orphanages in Bristol without fundraising appeals. He asked God, and he told the story afterward. One morning…
Prayer · Faith · Generosity
Muller · Matthew 6 · Philippians 4
Story
Eric Liddell, the Scottish sprinter later portrayed in Chariots of Fire, refused to run his best event, the 100 meters, at the 1924…
Rest · Obedience · Calling
Liddell · Daniel 1 · Hebrews 12
Object lesson
A potter’s wheel is a small, violent mercy. The clay is centered only by pressure. If it goes lopsided, the potter does not flatter…
Calling · Formation · Pride
Jeremiah 18 · Isaiah 64
History
In July 1505, a law student named Martin Luther was caught in a violent storm near Stotternheim. Terrified, he cried out to St.…
Calling · Fear · Grace
Luther · Romans 1
History
For twenty-eight years the Berlin Wall was the most convincing argument in Europe that some divisions do not move. Then, in…
Community · Hope · The Cross
Ephesians 2 · Revelation 21
History
When an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13 in April 1970, the moon landing was over. What remained was getting three men home with…
Suffering · Hope · Community
History
In August 2010, a mine collapsed in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Thirty-three men were trapped 2,300 feet down. For seventeen days the…
Hope · Perseverance · Prayer
Psalm 40 · Romans 8
History
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849. Freedom, for her, was not a finish line. She returned south again and again —…
Courage · Identity · Calling
Tubman · Luke 15 · Philippians 2
History
John Wesley was already an ordained priest, a missionary, and a man of severe discipline when he went unwillingly to a meeting on…
Conversion · Faith · Grace
Wesley · Romans 5 · Romans 8
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Pascal did not write “God-shaped vacuum.” What he wrote is sterner and better. He said we carry the empty print of a lost…
Rest · Identity · Hope
Pascal · Ecclesiastes 3 · John 4
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Jim Elliot wrote in his journal on 28 October 1949: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot…
Obedience · Calling · Generosity
Elliot · Matthew 16
Analogy
Walk past a stone church at midday and the stained glass is dull, almost black. The saints look like shadows. Step inside and the…
Mission · Community · Faith
Matthew 5 · John 8
Story
An old preaching story tells of an artist contest on the theme of peace. One canvas is a still alpine lake at dawn — glass water,…
Rest · Suffering · Hope
Psalm 46 · John 16
Analogy
The Grand Canyon was not dug in a weekend of drama. A river, patient and ordinary, cut stone by returning to the same path.…
Formation · Pride · Faith
Galatians 6 · Luke 16
Object lesson
In the ancient world, salt preserved, flavored, and, in some covenants, sealed a relationship. Jesus tells disciples they are the…
Mission · Formation · Community
Matthew 5 · Leviticus 2
Quote
A. W. Tozer wrote, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” He was not flattering…
Worship · Identity · Pride
Tozer · Isaiah 6 · Hebrews 12
Object lesson
In a shame-and-honor village, a son who asked for his inheritance early was treating his father as if he were already dead. The…
Grace · Forgiveness · The Cross
Luke 15