Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Get In The Word
Come what may. No matter what. No matter how high the creek rises.
Readiness
The readiness is all. Act 5, Scene 2, Hamlet
Love
The Second Sunday Of Advent Father, we light this candle to thank You for Your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, who is the way. And for Your love for us confirmed through Your Word. Renew our faith so that we may relive the wonder of Your love. Help us see how we can...
The Joy Of Being In The Presence Of The Lord
"I was glad when they said to me, “Come let us go up to the house of the Lord.” Psalm 122:1, a psalm of David, adapted. This also from David, "I wash my hands to declare my innocence. I come to your altar, O Lord, singing a song of thanksgiving and telling of all your...
God And Shakespeare
“Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes.” Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the...
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...
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