Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
We Are To Be Holy As He Is Holy
Holiness is the result of the Spirit’s work in us. The Holy Spirit is engaged in our deepest hearts in a battle between what is good and what is evil. Do you have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying? Are you open to the Spirit who brings a new holiness?
Spiritual Growth
Never let God show you a truth that you don't immediately begin to live up to.
Warning
If your mind is like a dark alley, don't go there alone.
Humor, Theology And Truth
Like good humor, bad theology always has an element of truth.
You Just Don’t Know
Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can fully share its joy. Proverbs 14:10 NLT The gamut of a person’s feelings, from bitterness to joy, cannot be fully shared with another human. No matter how close we are, no one can really know the internal...
Hope
The First Sunday Of Advent 2022 Father, Advent is a time of preparing, waiting, and hoping. On ths first Sunday of Advent we light this candle of hope. We remember Your promise to send a Savior to Your people. And we look forward to the day when we can again celebrate...
With Judgment As Inescapable As Light
Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse was standing there. Its rider was named Faithful and True, for he judges fairly and wages a righteous war. Revelation 19:11 NLT
The Flight From Beauty
Beauty is a value as important as truth or goodness. The loss of the virtues of truth and goodness has been accompanied by a flight from beauty. Things of beauty can provide consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy. We can look on the worlds of art, architecture,...
Love, Perfected
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 1 John 4:18 ESV
Love Defined, And The Reason For Gratitude At Thanksgiving
“It is finished.” John 19:30
A Thanksgiving Day Prayer, 2022
God the Father, maker of heaven and earth, by you we have our creation and preservation; we thank you for the great gift of life in your good creation: food to sustain us, sun to enlighten us, air to enliven us, friends and family to make our hearts glad. God the Son,...
An Anthem Of Thanksgiving
For the Believer, thanksgiving is a permanent condition of the heart. Here is our anthem this Thanksgiving morning: Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth!Serve the Lord with gladness!Come into His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God!It is He...
A Presidential Proclamation Setting A National Day Of Thanksgiving, 1789
"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and to humbly implore his protection and favor. And whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me “to...
Do Unto Others
"Give to everyone who asks of you. And of him who takes away your goods, do not ask for them back. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Luke 6:30-31 MEV Do not act in kind against wrongdoing. To ‘give as good as you get’ is not a Biblical principle....
Maybe
Maybe. Maybe not.
Advent: The Once And Future Coming Of Jesus Christ
Advent is a time of waiting and preparing for the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. For Christmas. Taken from the Latin adventus, (coming, arrival, invasion), Advent proclaims the coming of Christ in two ways: it celebrates His long-awaited arrival as Messiah over...
To Know God And To Make Him Known
Knowing God: Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: Love others as well as you love yourself. These two commands are pegs;...
Good And Evil
All things in creation can be used for good or evil. And the Devil is clever, in an evil and pitiful sort of way. He inspired some fool to hijack a Biblical covenant into a dysphoric flag in the likeness of a rainbow. This evil is a perfect sign of the entropy of...
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