Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
It Was A Day Like Any Other
My righteousness draws near, My salvation has gone out, and My arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for Me, and for My arm they wait. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear...
Martin Luther King Day
On this Martin Luther King day, a contemplation on character: We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of...
Creation Knows The Voice That Spoke Into The Void
A familiar Bible passage tells us that things work together for good for those who love and follow Christ. Does this mean some things? A few things? Most things? No. It means precisely what it says. All things. "And we know that all things work together for good to...
On Obedience
This is the day the Lord has made. My obligation is to use it to glorify Him. Defend the Truth. Life the faith. Advance The Kingdom.
Do Not Settle
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test my thoughts. Point out anything you find in me that makes you sad, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24 TLB. Never settle in your walk with God. Never let Him show you a truth that you don't...
Even Unto The End Of The Age
"And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age." Matthew 28:20. Selah. Amen.
If The Only Tool You Have Is A Hammer, The Whole World Looks Like A Nail
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only one we have. Emile Auguste Chartier
First Things First
Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Jesus, circa 29 AD, Matthew 6:33 NKJV
Spiritual Formation /4
The fruit of the earth is not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain, and care. Similarly the fruit of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, and perseverance. As we grow in Christ, our spirtual formation manifests itself through the growth...
The Christian Hope (1): It’s Not As Good As It’s Going to Get
We live in a Genesis 3 world. Fallen. Evicted from the Garden. Separated from God. But we fear not. We have a Psalm 23 guide, a John 3:16 love, a Romans 1:16 power, and a Revelation 21 future. (2) I'm just saying. #worldview The Christian definition of hope is...
Spiritual Formation /3
A popular children's nursery rhyme goes "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage." We won't get into the theological and historical truth and implications of the rhyme. That is not the story here. Our Sanctification is. First comes...
Spirtual Formation: GPS Not Needed /2
Most of us have traded in our folded maps for GPS devices, but we know they aren’t perfect. Sometimes they lead us down the wrong road, and occasionally they stop working altogether. But God’s guidance system is nonstop and never failing. He continually guides His...
Spiritual Formation /1
Therefore, since these great promises are ours, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile us, whether of body or spirit, and bring our consecration to completeness in wholehearted obedience and reverential fear of God. 2 Corinthians 7:1 When you accept...
Unexpected Success
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
The Peter Principle, Redux
…seek able men, such as fear God; men of integrity, men who are incorruptible. Appoint them as leaders. Exodus 18:21 One reason we so desperately need leadership is that no corporation, no church, no government, and no family ever rises above the competency and the...
Plan A
Then Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread throughout the entire vicinity. He was teaching in their synagogues, being acclaimed by everyone. He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the...
To Will One Thing*
On this Sabbath, let us pray: Father in Heaven, what are we without You?What is all that we know, vast accumulation though it be,but a chipped fragment if we do not know You?What is all our striving,even if it could encompass a world,but a half-finished work if we do...
What Is The Question, 2022?
Twelve Tribes.Twelve Spies (Note 1).Twelve Apostles.Twelve Baskets (Note 2).Twelve Fruits (Note 3).Twelve Questions. These are the twelve questions that will guide our lives in 2022: Did anyone see Jesus in me today?Is this something in which God is interested?What is...
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