Be A Cross-Bearer: Push Back

Would that my ways were firm in keeping Your laws; then I would not be ashamed when I regard all Your commandments [Oh, that my steps might be steady, keeping to the course you set; Then I’d never have any regrets in comparing my life with your counsel]. (Psalm...

Prayer and Surrender

God intentionally waits to answer our prayers until we’re in a position to accept His guidance. Put another way, He wants us to be willing and able to do as He says. Think about it. Jesus made Himself available to His disciples, but they had to choose to follow...

On Prayer

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 1 John 5:14 NIV Has your desperate prayer remained unanswered? Have you prayed, yet you seem to get no response or movement? God’s delay is never due to...

The Consequence Of Evil

“This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them because of the evil they committed to anger me, by going...

The Irony of Wisdom

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. Isabel Allende

Memo To Self

Memo: To SelfSubject: InfallibilityDate: Today Every Christian has to decide this question: Is Jesus Christ’s mind infallible, or is the modern Western mind infallible?  The tendency today is to think ourselves infallible, and the Bible a jumble of the most...