Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
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)
Humilitas Before The Majesty Of God
"To pray is to fall face down before the Lord, stripped of the flattering disguises of pride, humbly presenting before Him our naked sin." Catechism Of The Spiritual Life, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect Emeritus, Rome
Shabbat Shalom
If we serve Jesus, then every act and thought are acts of worship. Contemplate this as you enter into corporate worship today. And as you go about your week.
Abiding In Him
Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be...
Be Prepared
Be ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. 1 Peter 3:15 [Adapted] When you stand before the council (Acts 4) or the Gates of Hell, it will not be sufficient to simply wave the Book of the Word before the...
We Have Only Just Begun
Now all glory to God who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to do exceedingly abundantly more than we would ever dare to ask, hope or dream for. May He be given glory forever and ever through endless ages because of His master plan of salvation for...
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