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A Journey in Thoughtful Christianity

Your Journey with God site is committed to your spiritual growth and personal reflection. We offer books containing devotional inspiration, guided reflections, and practical resources designed to deepen faith, nurture your soul, and open the door to God’s wisdom for your life.

Whether you are beginning your faith journey or seeking renewed meaning and deeper understanding, we seek to provide thoughtful guidance and encouragement for the way.

Our approach blends thoughtful biblical theology with everyday spirituality—accessible, welcoming, and oriented toward serious spiritual growth. Find inspiration, deepen your relationship with God, and cultivate a life of purpose, meaning, and peace.

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The Mystery of God’s Good Providence

The Intervention of his Unfailing Love

The Paradox of his Undeserved Grace

The door to your Journey is open . . .

The Gap Between God and Christianity: The Turbulence of Western Culture

Finding Freedom and Grace in a Broken World: A Journey in the Purposes of God

An Intervening Love: The Mystery of God’s Providence and the Paradox of His Grace

The Ancient Code of Biblical Wisdom: God’s Design for Human Well-being

  • An Introduction to the Resources for YOUR JOURNEY WITH GOD

    —From the introduction to Finding Freedom and Grace in a Broken World

  • "The ability to reason is an extraordinary human capacity. God gave it to his creatures in his sovereign providence, but it is not always a gift used to honor its Giver. We make that choice. Sometimes, “knowing God” is reduced to a cold, rational, informational domain that limits God to the extreme of naked intelligence. Other times, knowing him is cheapened at the extremes of sentimental simplicity or mystical secrets. But there is a correct use of our minds that results in understanding and faith, producing gratefulness, humility, loyalty, worship, and wonder. This way of thinking nurtures love for the Creator God of the universe."

  • "In these readings, I hope to open up the centrality of trust and freedom as we seek to live for the purposes of God. We must often recalibrate our thinking to reflect these realities of God in our lives. To this end, I have noted what I see as biblical thinking regarding various themes that inevitably come our way as we progress on our journey in the Christian life. My prayer is that it will be helpful to those who want to “have the mind of Christ” in their daily walk, those seeking to know God as he is, not as others try to make him. It is for people who want to move from Christian routines and rituals, from information about God to flourishing faith and trust, enveloping a living relationship with him in our broken world. I also hope some themes here will help people who wish they knew God but have not heard, in a relevant way, how to open that door."

  • "We have been brought up within our culture, along with those around us, to see things a particular way—to interpret our experience and respond to events, people, and even to God in both cultural and personal ways. This has given us a frame of reference that undergirds all else we know and trust and love in life, as well as all we question, distrust, and hate. But that foundation is not without its cracks. It is a worldview we accepted without examination and have been blind to all our lives. But what if we took it out and looked at it? What if we tested it to see the realities of its relationship to our faith? Has human culture influenced us in the wrong direction? Is our faith controlled by our culture? Or have we put its function to govern our thinking and values under the influence of our faith? It is time for an inspection and appraisal of this foundation and framework. Things are not always what they seem; we need to see them as they are, not as our culture shapes them."

  • "So, careful thinking is where our journey must begin. We often hear that it is by faith that it all begins for the Christian. Yes, but not faith in a vacuum. Not blind faith. No, it must be faith that knows something—its object. It begins with humility that recognizes our guilt before God and accepts his grace for us through the work of Christ. You’ll notice I didn’t use the word 'believe' in this sentence. Our English word is mainly reserved for referring to things we think might be true. We don’t use the term to talk about things like the earth’s gravity, for example. Beliefs may be weaker or stronger, but we are dealing with facts here. These are the realities God seeks to make known to us if we have eyes to see and ears to hear."

  • "This is salvation, God’s purpose for his creation. He means to rescue non-Christians and give rest to Christians who are tired and weary. He is the Creator-God who intends to have a relationship with humankind, though a gulf of enormous proportions separates them. He, and only he, provides the way for this to come about in Christ. Are there feelings involved? Yes, but they begin with grief when we understand our lost condition and arrive at an overwhelming sense of gratefulness for his grace—gratefulness that he did not turn his back on us. His being and actions then call for our trust in his words. Here, we must engage the mind. We must think deeply about the ramifications of knowing the Creator-God. All the godless explanations of the beginnings of humankind are a thin film of human defense against God, desperate efforts to wrench our destiny from his hand, and intentional attempts to erase him. But, though all the engines of atheism are leveled against him, he remains. Our Creator-God is not moved. There’s not a scratch on the armor of the sovereign King of the universe."

  • "My hope is that this collection of thoughts about God and ourselves will encourage us to reboot our faith, realign our loyalty, modify our values, and reassign the influences of self and culture to their proper places. Persistent trust, unswerving loyalty to God, and relevant assessments of self and our culture’s impact on us will renew our perspective of God’s grace and providence and calm our lives. It is not a once-for-all fix. We must check our alignment with his way fairly often as we go along. And none of us will do this perfectly."

  • "The church is made up of fallible people. One can expect certain weaknesses as people seek to grow in Christ and strengthen their faith. The great problem, weighty and often severe, is when they are not pursuing the goal of this alignment with God or the church does not encourage them to seek it. The salt will have lost its flavor, the light, its ability to show the way. God helping us, we can and must do better."

  • "I often use the words 'popular Christian' to describe people who call themselves Christians but are so superficial in their understanding it is not evident they actually know God. This is a broad category of people who like Christianity. They are shallow in their faith, and their lives may be filled with 'Christian' trinkets, rituals, and superstitions. They have a somewhat tit-for-tat understanding of God’s ways: 'I do this for you, so you must do that for me.' I use the term in contrast to those I call 'biblical Christians,' people whose trust and loyalty to God allow him to speak for himself without imposing rules or our personal or cultural expectations on him. They know they are imperfect and do not expect God to exempt them from his boundaries for believers, but they experience freedom in Christ unknown to popular Christians."

  • "We grow in our perspective as we go along in the Christian life. In the spring of our lives, we see things one way, and in the autumn, we are surprised at how we have changed. These thoughts are reflections during the autumn of my life as I look back at years of God’s providence and grace along the way."

Freedom and Grace in a Broken World, Journey, Purposes and Providence of God
Love of God, mystery of providence, paradox of grace
Western culture, God, and Christianity

Each book is a link to excerpts...

The Ancient Code of Biblical Wisdom: God's Design for Human Well-Being, by Thomas M. Stallter.'
Book cover titled "Finding Freedom and Grace in a Broken World" by Thomas M. Stallter, depicting a cloudy sky over a landscape with the title and author's name.
Book cover titled "The Gap Between God and Christianity" by Thomas M. Stallter, focusing on Western culture and its influence on religion, with quotes and descriptions of the book's content.
Book cover titled 'An Intervening Love' by Thomas M. Stallter with foreword by Christine Hill, featuring an image of wheat fields, and promotional text for the book and author.