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The human body is the focal point of human existence. Jesus had one. We have one. Without the body in its proper place, the pieces of the puzzle of new life in Christ do not realistically fit together, and the idea of really following Him and becoming like Him remains a practical impossibility. Source:…

Certainly we cannot reasonably hope to do his deeds without adopting his form of life. And we cannot adopt his form of life without engaging in his disciplines - maybe even more than he did and surely adding others demanded by our much more troubled condition. Source: Willard, Dallas; The Spirit of the…

Nicolas Berdyaev describes the flesh with great accuracy: This lower nature, when it occupies its proper place in the hierarchy of the universe, is not in itself evil, for it belongs to the divine world. It is only when it usurps the place of something higher that it become untrue to itself and an evil.…

Salvation as conceived today is far removed from what it was in the beginnings of Christianity and only by correcting it can God's grace in salvation be returned to the concrete, embodied existence of our human personalities walking with Jesus in his easy yoke. Once salvation is relegated to mere forgiveness…