Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Humility
"Humility is the mother of all virtues. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they...
Tapped Off
There is a level of competition that athletes hope to reach where they are in the zone, where reactions come smoothly and effortlessly, where time slows down and their many years of hard work and training come together. In the sport of rodeo, bull riders and bronc...
The Seventh Day
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Mark 2:27 NASB The Sabbath is a gift from God, created for us. Our keeping of it is first to bring honor and glory to God, who rested from His work of creation on the seventh day. Secondarily, it provides time...
Love God
If you love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, then do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. Paraphrased, St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430); 1 John 4:4-12, Matthew 22:37-40.
Obedience Defined
Obedience: loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind and loving your neighbor as yourself; walking in humble fellowship with God and living in steadfast righteousness toward others.
A Clarion Call
And if the bugler doesn’t sound a clear call, how will the soldiers know they are being called to battle? 1 Corinthians 14:8 NLT
The Only Thing
When you step out of this world, and you look back, the only thing that will gratify you about the life that you lived will be this single thing - the opportunities that you saw and seized to make a difference for the Kingdom of Christ. Seizing opportunities: Look...
The Only Thing
When you step out of this world, and you look back, the only thing that will gratify you about the life that you lived will be this single thing - the opportunities that you saw and seized to make a difference for the Kingdom of Christ. Seizing opportunities: Look...
What Time Is It? It’s Time To Go
But how can people call on Him if they have not believed in Him? How can they believe in Him if they have not heard His message? How can they hear if no one tells the Good News? Romans 10:14 NOG
Yielding Our Birthright For Pottage /6: The ARC Of A Better Story
We have been in a series considering the trajectory of decline of Western civilization. If you are a regular reader of @whatnow2do, you will know that we believe that the West is in an accelerated rate of entropy (see here). And that if we continue yielding our...
Yielding Our Birthright For Pottage /5
The widespread failure of institutions and governance in the West has resulted in a breakdown of civil society. And calls from elites for A Great Reset. For government as god. Anarchy is at the gates. What now 2 do? Is there a better narrative? We are in a series...
Yielding Our Birthright For Pottage /4
We are in a series considering the premise of yielding our birthright for pottage. Of trading freedom and personal responsibility for hand-outs and of government as god. The widespread failure of the institutions of civil society has resulted in a breakdown of...
Yielding Our Birthright For Pottage /3
We are in a series considering the premise of yielding our birthright for pottage. Of trading freedom and personal responsibility for hand-outs and of government as god. The widespread failure of the institutions of civil society has resulted in a breakdown of...
Yielding Our Birthright For Pottage /2
Thinking people are rightly apprehensive of the illiberal trend in the free West, of failed governance everywhere, and of the vision of the future of the WEF and their useful idiots. In the face of this totalitarian assault, a great many are stricken with mass...
Yielding Our Birthright For Pottage /1
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Paul of Tarsus In Hoc Anno Domini. In the year of our Lord. Some 2,000 years ago a Light came into the world, and the world has never been the...
One Encounter
When it was time to leave, the Magi returned to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. Matthew 2:12 NLT One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change someone instantly, forever. Scripture tells us that the...
Our Covenant Prayer For 2024
As God is faithful, so shall we be faithful. We will be God-intentional and in steadfast alignment with Biblical Truth, seeking first the things of the Kingdom. We will be identified with Christ, letting others see Jesus in us. In all these things we shall remember:...
2024 /7
We ended 2023 on the theme of faithfulness. Faithfulness is "a long obedience in the direction of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Faithfulness is fidelity, loyalty, devotion, trueness, dedication, commitment, allegiance, and love toward God and our fellow man. As...
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