Jun 6, 2018
A to-do plan for Christian daily living: 1. Look ahead and see what you have to do. 2. Go to the Lord in prayer and say, “Lord, I do not have what it takes to do this; I need divine help.” 3. Rely on the Lord to answer the prayer you have offered, and proceed...
Jun 4, 2018
God has also planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds, a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMPC, Paraphrased) We have two vocations in life, our labor by which we...
Feb 11, 2018
For a cyclist “get out of the saddle” has special meaning. It says, stand up on the pedals and put in that extra effort to sprint up this climb. As a result of a series of bad personal decisions, the last year has seen my physical wellbeing go downhill....
Oct 5, 2017
Begin With The End In Mind The end-state of God’s Sanctifying Grace is our being fully conformed to the image of Christ. On that journey, it is vital that we practice Spiritual Disciplines, cooperating with the Holy Spirit as he renews our minds, and moves us along...
Apr 10, 2017
“How do you know when the gold is purified?” we asked him, and he answered, “When I can see my face in the liquid gold, then it is pure.”[1] God’s Transformative Refining The Japanese art form of kintsugi (“golden joinery”) or kintsukuroi,...
Feb 2, 2017
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? [Thomas Jefferson, paraphrased]