ps1611 · presence, fire, quiet strength
Ministry writings on walking with God through weakness, warfare, and wonder.
May 26, 2026
“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst…
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The End of My Road
Oct 29, 2023
Bittersweet is a word not understood by most. Only them who have heard the enormous roar of His quiet Peace above the storm through which they have passed,…
Worry? It’s Not Even about What We Think We Really Want!
Oct 26, 2023
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on…
Duo Obituaries
Oct 10, 2023
If we have never been hurt by a statement of Jesus, it is questionable whether we have ever really heard him speak. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever…
Walking Wounded
Aug 14, 2023
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach,…
The Firm Foundation of Weakness
Mar 18, 2023
Christ above me, very God of very God,Christ below me, incarnate of the dust,Christ at my right hand in my strength,Christ at my left hand in my weakness,Christ…
Never Apologize for Being in The Fight
Mar 4, 2023
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them…
Theatre of Operations
Feb 26, 2023
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.~C. S. Lewis A Psalm of DavidThe LORD is my shepherd;…
Jesus Is Our Foxhole
Feb 25, 2023
The Christian says, ‘Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
The Crisis Questions of Our Faith
Jan 9, 2023
Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come…
Validation: The Great Glory of An Addict
Nov 20, 2022
How God thinks of us is … infinitely more important. … It is written that we shall “stand before” Him, shall appear, shall be inspected. The promise of…
The Friend Closer Than A Brother
Jul 29, 2022
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he…
Known
Jul 25, 2022
Finally, we may master our evil selves by developing a continuous prayer and devotional life. Through this process the soul of man will become united with the life…
To Us Fathers Who Failed
Jul 10, 2022
I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope. ~Elyse M. Fitzpatrick And again Isaiah says, “The…
Made to Burn with The Light of The Son
Jul 5, 2022
The atoms like each other to different degrees. Oxygen, for instance in the air, would like to be next to carbon, and if they get near to each…
Smashed and Tattered
Jul 4, 2022
Blessed – lucky – are those who cry. Blessed are those who are sad, who mourn, who feel the loss of what they love – because they will…
Deadly Mind Chess
Jun 4, 2022
I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope. ~Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Therefore, since we are surrounded…
Forgiven, Restored, Accepted.
Jun 2, 2022
It is written that we shall “stand before” Him, shall appear, shall be inspected. The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the…
Reconciled from Bitterness
Apr 4, 2022
There1 is one source of power that is stronger than every disappointment, bitterness or ingrained mistrust, and that power is Jesus Christ, Who brought forgiveness and reconciliation to…
Let It Burn… Our Warfare Is Ended
Mar 23, 2022
Control is an illusion, but isolation is not.
Lifebuilders – James 2
Mar 13, 2022
Click for: Audio of James 2 Slideshow (before class): Main Lesson Presentation Deck Videos and other Resources ● https://bit.ly/pardes2 – John Delhousaye’s PARDES work on the book of…
Keeping It Simple
Feb 26, 2022
Spokes unite in the hub, but it is emptiness at the center that makes the wheel turn…A pot is made of clay, but it is emptiness in the…
Our Father
Feb 14, 2022
In the end that Face which is the delight or the terror of the universe must be turned upon each of us either with one expression or with…
Know Your Audience
Feb 8, 2022
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. … If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives, Be kind anyway. … If…
Beholden to One Voice
Feb 1, 2022
Oh! Listen to My Voice, eagerly, joyfully. Never crowd it out. I have no rival claimants, and if men seek the babble of the world, then I withdraw.…
Taking The Long View on Sorrow And Pain
Jan 5, 2022
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.We accomplish in…
Stop Letting The Enemy Mess with Your Head!
Dec 25, 2021
The enemy has been messing with your head long enough. It’s your turn… The law of life in Christ is this: A promise elevates every circumstance… You need…
The Fight Is Real. The Outcome Even More So
Dec 22, 2021
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.~ C. S. Lewis But you, Israel,…
Stop, Drop, And Wait-State
Dec 4, 2021
To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our imaginings. So, too,…
Through The Stygian Silence
Oct 15, 2021
The Enlightenment turned away from truth and toward a darkling weakening horizon, sad and grey to see. The afterglow of Christianity is near gone now and a stygian…
What If You Got Everything You Think You Wanted?
Sep 12, 2021
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end,…
De Civitate Dei – The City of God vs. The City of Self
Aug 31, 2021
He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.― Augustine of Hippo, City of God For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and…
Blood Everywhere
Aug 17, 2021
What the world calls virtue, without Christ, is a name and a dream. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the…
Leaving The Yoke of Bondage
Jul 29, 2021
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our…
Finding The Depths of The Riches
Jul 19, 2021
No matter how great your pain or how confusing and intense your suffering, live in the mystery of My love. Struggle to trust Me. Do not live with…
A Blessing upon The Opening of The Sanctuary of Solutions in Jesus Christ, in Mombasa, Kenya on July 4th
Jun 28, 2021
Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering ten-thousand times ten-thousand and thousands of…
The Power of Lament
Jun 15, 2021
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As…
You Gotta Want It!
May 18, 2021
There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus noticed him lying there , knowing that he had been in that condition…
Do We Really Want New Life?
May 16, 2021
There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus noticed him lying there , knowing that he had been in that condition…
Put It Down. That’s Not Your Sin Any More.
May 3, 2021
The cross of Christ is God’s last and endless word. There the prince of this world is judged, there sin is killed, and pride is done to death,…
Good News: No Thing Is Ever Enough
Apr 18, 2021
The Christian says, ‘Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
Remember
Apr 9, 2021
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.~Chuck Palahniuk…
Mysterium Fidei (The Mystery of Faith)
Mar 21, 2021
The mystery of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our nothingness and our greatness, producing humility and animating hope.~Henry Dundas Melville (1742-1811) O…
What Price Freedom? Would We Pay it?
Mar 15, 2021
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement; he is a rebel who must lay down his arms…. This process of surrender—this movement full speed…
Atlas Crushed: The Failure of Autonomy
Feb 17, 2021
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for…
There Is No “Them.” There Is Only “Us.”
Jan 28, 2021
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. ~Kahlil Gibran For just as the body is one and has many members,…
Warriors Own The Night
Jan 12, 2021
Fear not the night,Fear those who walk the night.And I am he that walks the night,But only evil needs to fear meAnd gentle souls sleep safe in their…
A Warrior’s Crisis at Christmas
Dec 27, 2020
Hold my faith for me! I cannot grasp it right now!~ An African mother in travail of childbirth, to her attendants. “I have cut off nations;their battlements are…
There Has to Be More! Our Deepest Yearnings at Christmas
Dec 23, 2020
It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too…
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