Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Catechism Of The Spiritual Life
“To lighten the ship of our life, the voice of the Lord invites us to throw the cargo of our sins into the sea. We may have to throw overboard the things we thought were the most precious in our existence." Catechism of the Spiritual Life, Cardinal R Sarah* *Born...
Small Steps / 2
Proving that even committed Marxists can recognize truth when they see it (pun intended), Helen Keller (1880-1968), blind from childhood, once said, "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great...
Small Steps /1
The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
It’s Tuesday. Quit it.
Most of us have spent most of our lives avoiding the people Jesus spent most of His life engaging. @bobgoff
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”...
The Theology of Abiding
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Matthew 8:26. ESV When we are afraid, the least we can do is pray to God. But our Lord has a right to expect that those who call on His name have an underlying confidence in Him. God expects His...
Jesus Was First A Carpenter
All of life, including work, is an act of worship to God. Christian work is any good work well done.
Random Acts Of Kindness
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 Kindness is a characteristic on display throughout the...
Do Not Stifle The Spirit
Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. And don’t stifle those who have a word from the Master. Test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. Throw out anything tainted with evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 [Adapted] The Word of God tells us there are two ways in which...
What Is The Question?
The answer you get depends on the question you ask. And "What is Washington going to do about it" is the wrong question. The right question? What does this mean in the Providence of God?
Ordered Liberty
Democracy and liberty are entirely different things.* America's organizing principle was Ordered Liberty not democracy. And as we noted yesterday, it is not democracy that dies in the darkness. It is liberty. Democracy is simply an incidental causality. Liberty is...
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death*
Democracy arises from liberty, not liberty from democracy.** And liberty is born of the unalienable rights endowed each of us by our Creator. Societies based on liberty require a middle class for sustenance and flourishing. For Neo-Marxists to reign, they must hollow...
Do-Over
How would you live your life differently if you had a chance? Here is our partial list: Accept Jesus as savior at a much younger age.Watch less television.Laugh more. The following poem, of uncertain attribution (sometimes Nadine Stair, an 85-year-old woman in...
Life Dots
God affectionately holds the entire painting of our lives in His hands and has promised to create something beautiful of it. It took George’s Seurat two years to paint A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the famous seaside scene. Each color that the...
Obedience
The Christian definition of success is Obedience.
Squeezed
I want you to know how glad I am that it’s me sitting here in this jail and not you. There’s a lot of suffering to be entered into in this world - the kind of suffering Christ takes on. I welcome the chance to take my share in the church’s part of that suffering....
Baby Believers
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you shall be My witnesses, telling people about me everywhere - in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” And after He had said these things, He was lifted up...
God Of The Details
If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look “little” or “big.” Elisabeth Elliot (1926 - 2015)
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