Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
The Definition Of Fellowship
A single day spent in Your courts beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. Psalm 84:10
Sabbath Rest
Sabbath is typically thought of as a day of rest, but it should not be absent of purpose. As we move away from temporal things, we ought to be intentionally moving toward something. A Christian Sabbath celebrates that works don't save us, the opinions of...
Faithful Then. Faithful Now
You make mountains move.You make giants fall.And You use songs of praiseto shake prison walls.I will speak to my fear.I will preach to my doubtYou were faithful then.You will be faithful now. They rode camels and were only just beginning to consider that the world...
Serendipity
It is not the nature of God to reward good deeds, but it is in the character of God to build serendipity and cosmic justice into His Creation. From the #imjustsaying series
Desire Unfulfilled
In his book, Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis writes on desire, and on the nagging sense that some fulfillment could just be fuller: “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another...
Faithfulness, Not Success
The lion's share of world-changing work is done by ordinary people who will never make headlines. They simply live faithful lives where God has placed them. Long obediences in the same direction. They’re the ones who nevertheless shape families, communities, cultures,...
A Prayer For The Day
God be in my head, and in my understanding;God be in mine eyes, and in my looking;God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;God be in my heart, and in my thinking;God be at mine end, and at my departing. Sarum Primer, 1538
Love and Surrender
"Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man’s will is crushed, but that man’s heart is broken." William Barclay
Why Our Christian House Celebrates Shabbat (Sabbath)
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work.” (Exodus 20:8-11). AMPC Shabbat shalom. Literally, "Sabbath peace." Or more colloquially...
Revealed Truth: The Word Of God
Interpreting the Bible is not a matter of picking and choosing, but of exploring and understanding. We don't study God's Word to affirm our own biases or desires. We study it so that we can know God and submit to His authority in our lives. From the #imjustsaying...
Peace
Peace is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of God.
Christianity Untried
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. G. K. Chesterton From the #imjustsaying series
God’s Updraft
Did you know that, instead of flapping their wings, eagles have the ability to lock their joints and soar effortlessly on an updraft? "Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles." Isaiah 40: 31
On Forgiveness
A question for those who say they have forgiven so-and-so, and then recite a list of the transgressions that the forgiveness covers: Do they have a similar list of the transgressions of which God has forgiven them?
The Next Generation
Anne Graham Lotz has penned a beautiful devotional entitled Fixing My Eyes On Jesus. Here, reprinted in its enterity, is her message from February 18: I'll keep at it until I'm old and gray. God, don't walk off and leave me until I get out the news of your strong...
Truth And Love
God On Truth And Love: "Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of His body, the Church." Ephesians 4:15 NLT Rowan Williams On Truth And Love: Truth makes love possible. Love makes truth bearable.
Detours
When journeying with God some of the best parts of any pilgrimage are the detours. @AuthorJanisCox
This Explains Everything
God's justice and mercy meet at the cross.
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