Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Prayer: Hearing From God
“A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer was listening.” Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) Prayer is a two way street. We must resist becoming so fixated on what we want to...
Identified With Christ: Prayer
In our series on being Identified With Christ, we are prompted to turn our attention to one of the most powerful ways of aligning and being Identified With Christ: prayer. The reason will be obvious. Next to being immersed in the Word of God, prayer and fasting are...
The Seventh Sunday, A Sabbath Like No Other
Today marks the 50th day and the 7th sabbath after Christ's Easter Sunday resurrection. Pentecost. The day of the arrival of the Holy Spirit. A Christian high holy day. The coming of the Spirit was prophesied 800 years before the birth of Jesus: "I...
On Prayer
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. Mrs Charles E Cowan, Streams In The Desert
Being Identified With Christ
Despite the inevitable hardship that will come from being identified with Christ in today's culture, God's word provides the prescription: "But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Matthew 5:44 CSB
Resident Aliens
Chuck Colson defined the Christian Mission Statement as "Defending The Truth. Living The Faith. Advancing The Kingdom." At What Now 2 Do, we use that definition interchangeably with "to influence and occupy," or "to know God, and to make Him known." However you define...
The Issue Is Now Quite Clear
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. John 1:9-10 NRSV Today, we have lost any real sense of light in the darkness. We are used to banishing...
To Influence And Occupy
"You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they...
On Being Identified With Christ
This week's posts begin a series on Being Identified With Christ and on His charge to go unto all the world. This command to influence and occupy is inseparable from Truth, so expect a little of that as well. Let's begin here: "Therefore, go and make disciples of all...
Shabbat Shalom
Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it Holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you. You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. Deutronomy 5:12-14a NLT We do not rest on the Sabbath...
And We Esteemed Him Not
He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53:3 ASV, circa 700 BC One of the most tragic scenes in all of Scripture is when Jesus was...
Israel: Reportage and Perspective
Linked below is an article from today's Times of Israel. It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of developments in Israel. There are many takeaways from this piece. Here are two:. Like it or not, Israeli Muslims attacking fellow citizens only makes sense in...
God On Love
But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love - not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his...
Refining Sanctification
Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty work within us, to do exceedingly abundantly more than we would ever dare to ask, hope or dream for. Ephesians 3:20 Amy Carmichael was an Irish born Christian missionary on fire for Christ. She spent over 50 years...
Christ Of My Failures
Lord, I praise and thank Youfor Your mercifuland transforming hand on my life,particular in the failures. I commit my failuresas well as my successesinto Your hands,and I bring for Your healingthe people and the situations,the wrongs and the hurtsof the past.Give me...
Is God Looking For You?
God is looking for a few good men and women. Men and women who are willing to go against the current of popular opinion, to hold firm convictions in a world where “anything goes,” to speak the truth when it’s not politically correct, and to walk with God when everyone...
Truth And Leftists
Want to understand why leftists are so outraged at being called Neo-Marxists or Socialists? To anger a Conservative tell them a lie. To anger a Leftist, tell them the truth. (Note 1) Note 1) This saying is often attributed to Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt. Much ado is...
Rest
Sabbath is a weekly respite from the relentless pressures, problems and pace of life. Listen to King David on the refreshing renewal of rest in God: “The Lord is my Shepherd.I have everything I need.He gives me rest in green pastures.He leads me to calm water.He gives...
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