Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
With What Shall I Come Before The Lord?
And what does the Lord require of you but to do what is right to other people, to show constant love, and to walk in humble fellowship with God. Micah 6:8 b "With what shall I come before the Lord" is the question for all people of every age. Following on from...
What Does God Require Of Me?
With what shall I come before the Lord? Isaac of Nineveh (Note 1) suggests an answer: "Do not reduce your prayers to words, but rather make the totality of your life a prayer to God." Make the entirety of your life a prayer of worship to God. What does that look...
The Biblical Banquet
God's will is not à la carte.
Suit Up. This Is War
Fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish. Jude 1:3b MSG The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Uncertain Attribution Great faith is the product of great...
Heroes on Bikes
OK, we can't help ourselves. Here is a good-news, do-unto-others, cycling story. One of the 23 cycling teams in the Tour de France is South Africa based Team Qhubeka NextHash (see footnote). It can be easy to forget that bicycles are a vital means of transportation in...
Italian Wisdom
Do good and care not to whom. #identifiedwithChrist
The Lord’s Day
It was the Lord's Day, and I was worshiping in the Spirit. Suddenly, I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet blast. It said, "Write in a book everything you see, and send it to the seven churches in the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira,...
Obéissance
The flag has dropped in Brest, France on the 2021 Tour de France. 23 days. 2,100 miles. 150,000 feet of climbing. Definition of obedience: completing daily blog posts during Le Tour. Fear not. However distracted, daily posts will continue. Come on! Allez. Let's...
Identified With Christ: The Holy Spirit
Identified With Christ: The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is the fire of God that ignites us, the breath of God that stirs us, the wind of God that shakes us, the whisper of God that calms us, the life of God that quickens us, the dew of God...
Talent, Morality and Character
People are impressed by talent and morality. God is impressed by character. Morality is not the same as character. Consider this: Johnny comes home from school and reports to his parents that the other kids were calling Susie fat, but that he did not. His...
Reasonable Service: Identified With Christ
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Hebrews 13:16 ESV God’s call to lay down our lives on the altar of sacrifice means that we give Him all that we are. Our rights, our reputation, our desires, our future...
Identified With Christ: Fruit Of The Spirit
Observable and increasing of the fruit of the Spirit in our lives is evidence of God’s conforming us to the image of Christ. Here, from Galatians 5:22-23, is a compendium of the fruit of the Spirit: 1. Love: affection for others;2. Joy: exuberance about life;3. Peace:...
Who’s Your Daddy?
In the wake of Father's Day, having pondered the impact of fathers in our lives, or our own legacy as a father, we posit this: You can tell everything you need to know about a man by who his god is. It's been said that a person's god is revealed by his...
KAOS
In the long running parody TV series Get Smart, Agent 86 is tasked with thwarting KAOS, an international organization of evil. Can there be any better parody of the Christian's life today? On this Shabbat, the world is in KAOS. Much of it governed by...
Prayer: Incessant, Insistent, Relentless, and Expectant
And we are sure of this, that he will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his will. And if we really know he is listening when we talk to him and make our requests, then we can be sure that he will answer us. 1 John 5:14-15 TLB Prayer is a...
Pray From God’s Perspective
Pray not simply on the basis of intercession, but for redemption. Not for someone to simply be "patched up," but to be carried completely through into contact with the very life of God. To become identified with Christ. Put yourself in God's place, having His mind and...
Augustine Succumbs To Prayer
Strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf. Romans 15:30 ESV Could persistent, seemingly unanswered, prayer be a means of grace in your life? In the lives of others? Augustine (also "Augustine of Hippo" and "Saint Augustine") (354 - 430) was one of...
Prayer: Disinfecting The Air Around Us
For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age. Ephesians 6:12 GNT In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul reminds us of the spiritual warfare that...
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