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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, know this word’s true sense.~ Makala Barnabas Doulos…
• 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 things that are above, not on things that…
• 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 before me when seen,Christ behind me when unseen,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 better. The credit belongs to the man who…
• 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 to that point many times externally, but it…
• 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 who in the midst of the crowd keeps…
• 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 Hebrews Kenyan Traditional Dance Video 🙂 – Utange…
• 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 our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the…
• 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, is giving up control over our future and…
• 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 the priority of making your life in this…
• 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 long as our expectation is from other things,…
• 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 a long time (38 years), He said to…
• 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 astern—is what Christians call repentance. Now repentance is…
• Changing World, Unchanging Saviour Sep 20, 2020 Seeing God, Job forgets all he wanted to say, all he thought he would say if he could but see him.~George Macdonald (1824-1905) … And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who…
• First Things First: Love G_d, Love People, And Fear Not Jul 2, 2020 God gives His communion to all who love Him. Communion with God is life and light and sweetness with all the good things that He has. But those who of their own will forsake Him, He…
• Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum May 19, 2020 (Latin: If you want peace, prepare for war) We live in a culture that, as Cardinal Francis George said, “permits everything and yet forgives nothing.” And so people despair of being forgiven and feel compelled to…
• Simeon-Sized Faith Feb 15, 2020 Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.~ Augustine of Hippo (354-430) “Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that…
• Infant on The Anvil Nov 22, 2019 We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.~ Henry Ward Beecher For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for…
• Bitter or Better? Aug 19, 2019 We are immortals dreaming the terrible dream of mere mortality. ~Peter Kreeft Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, … And I…
• Love That Makes The Darkness Tremble Mar 3, 2019 For bravery none compares with our Lord. He never turned His head from danger, not even when hell’s hatred and heaven’s justice appeared against Him.~William Gurnall The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.He makes…
• Cutting Away Our Self-Regard Feb 28, 2019 “Then the lion said — but I don’t know if it spoke — You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly…
• Ad Ora with Love Himself Jan 2, 2019 On a dark night, Inflamed by love-longing – O exquisite risk! – Undetected I slipped away. My house, at last, grown still. Secure in the darkness, I climbed the secret ladder in disguise – O exquisite…
• Faithful Wanderers Jan 1, 2019 No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not know by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many…
• Wounding A Man, That He Might Be Healed Oct 31, 2018 It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.~A.W. Tozer Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For He wounds,…
• Living Like Frank A. (Francis of Assisi) Sep 13, 2018 See, Christianity is not a philosophy primarily. Christianity is a relationship to this Jesus. Which is why the renewal of the Church, though it has an institutional dimension; though it involves practical changes and all of…
• Am I Enough for You? Aug 20, 2018 Whenever our Lord talked about the relation of a disciple to Himself it was in terms of mystical union: “I am the vine , ye are the branches.” We have not paid enough attention to the…
• Avoiding Philanthropy: Go All The Way Instead Aug 14, 2018 A good way to avoid the snare of empty religious activity is to appear before God every once in a while with our Bibles open to the thirteenth chapter of first Corinthians. This passage, though rated…
• Domine, non nisi Te Aug 10, 2018 The flood of temporal things draws us after itself, but in this flood there is, as it were, a full-grown tree: our Lord Jesus Christ. He took flesh, died, and ascended to heaven. It is as…
• No, The Grass Is Not Greener. Not Anywhere Jul 14, 2018 The desire for possessions is dangerous and terrible, knowing no satiety; it drives the soul which it controls to the heights of evil. ~Abba Isidore of Pelusia When the poor and needy seek water, and there…
• Death by Obedience Jun 11, 2018 As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience. ~David…
• When We Seek His Heart, We Will Find It Jun 5, 2018 If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and…
• Is This Worth It? May 27, 2018 There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.…
• Immersed in Feeling – Brutally Honest And Sad Beyond Measure May 21, 2018 Sadness of soul follows from the heaviness of self-regard, a sadness and weight which precludes real union with the other. Joy, on the other hand… ~ Robert Barron O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry…
• Walk Tall, Shine for Him, and Look to Him for HIS approval. Apr 24, 2018 Obey God and Leave All the Consequences to Him. ~ Charles Stanley Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but You have not let me know whom You will…
• Beaten by Grace Mar 26, 2018 Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. … If you reject the ragamuffin gospel…
• Flux: Creating The Perfect Environment for Positive Change Mar 24, 2018 This is true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and…
• Stabbed in The Chest: Dying with Love in Betrayal Mar 20, 2018 In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, “I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been…
• Joy in The Morning: Expecting His Goodness Mar 5, 2018 And Grace calls out, ‘You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in…
• Forgiveness: The Gift of Loving Those Who Hurt Us Mar 1, 2018 Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt – any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy…
• Whistling in The Dark: Too Much Trust Is Not Possible with G_d Feb 26, 2018 Temptations come so that hidden passions may be revealed and so that it will be possible to fight them, and so that the soul may be rid of them. They are also a sign of God’s…
• 4716 – And The Year of The Dog Feb 15, 2018 A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined…
• Uzziah Days: The Times of Our Coming Undone Jan 18, 2018 It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. In every cloud he brings, God wants us to unlearn something. God’s purpose in the cloud is to simplify our…
• Encouragement: The Refilling of The Heart Jan 10, 2018 The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with…
• Instant Sense of Guidance Dec 10, 2017 Where are the young men and women of this generation who will hold their lives cheap, and be faithful even unto death, who will lose their lives for Christ’s, flinging them away for love of him?…
• Spirit And Brain – Keeping Ourselves Thinking Right Dec 3, 2017 God, many are now shocked to realize, does not have a brain. And he never misses it. This is something one must never forget. Body and brain come from him, not the other way around. And…
• The Pleasure of His Presence: Everything We Have Been Looking For Nov 5, 2017 I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness…
• The Tired Straw That Breaks Our Backs Sep 13, 2017 I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion,…
• Always Pain – Always More G_d Sep 9, 2017 Suffering is at the burning core of everything because love is. We need not feel alone in suffering because God is a suffering God who pulls close at our call. We can receive it if we…
• Battle-Softened Warrior Aug 18, 2017 …I thank Thee that Thou art risen from the dead, that at this very moment Thou dost indwell me in the person and power of Thy divine Spirit; that Thou hast never expected of me anything…
• It’s Too Much: The Impossible Life He Has Given Us Aug 12, 2017 The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for…
• Out of The Prison, And into The Light Aug 9, 2017 If thou intend not nor seek nothing else but the pleasing of God and the profit of thy neighbor thou shalt have inward liberty. ~Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471) As soon as his master heard the…
• Into The Memory Abyss: Finding Healing Jul 13, 2017 There is no escaping the cross. You will feel either pain in your body or tribulation in your spirit. Sometimes you will feel deserted by God. Sometimes your neighbor will trouble you. Quite frankly, you will…
• Our Own Personal 9/11s: It Matters How We Handle Our Pain Jun 30, 2017 In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, “I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been…
• When Someone Wants to Steal Your Joy Jun 25, 2017 The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with…
• True Nobility: Freedom to Submit Jun 7, 2017 Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this…
• Requiem for A Reputation May 21, 2017 If we are wise, we will do what Jesus said: endure the cross and despise its shame for the joy that is set before us. To do this is to submit the whole pattern of our…
• Kings of Earth: The Secret to Real Power Apr 23, 2017 I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. ~ George Sand And…
• Dance Like Nobody Is Watching Mar 19, 2017 “Way! Way! Way!” came the voice. “Way for the White Barbarian King, the guest of the Tisroc (may he live forever)! Way for the Narnian lords.”. . . It was quite unlike any other party they…
• Responding to The Hand We Were Dealt Jan 26, 2017 Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~Jawaharlal Nehru Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the…
• Our Own Personal Pearl Harbors Dec 11, 2016 Pride blinds us not only to itself, but to every other sin tucked away in the recesses of our hearts and lives. It causes us to hate correction and reproof. It hides our sin from us,…
• Hold On: Spirit Wins Nov 27, 2016 Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience. We should never be surprised that he seeks by assault and, if that fails, by undermining our defenses, to compel…
• Abandonment’s Cost Sep 28, 2016 That which one sacrifices is never lost.~German Proverb We’ll hardly get our feet out of time into eternity and gaze on eternity and that we bow our heads in shame and humiliation and say: My God,…
• Knockdown Sorrow And Grief Aug 7, 2016 What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to…
• Hold On Jul 28, 2016 The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.~Brennan Manning Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High…
• Part 1 of 2: Time to Let Go: Wreckless Abandon Jul 3, 2016 The great word of Jesus to His disciples is Abandon. When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on His word; trust entirely to Him and watch that when He…
• UltraFaith Apr 25, 2016 Faith: The ability God gives us to look through the crashing waves and straight into His wonderful eyes. Additionally, this faith is an inner buoyancy growing into something that enables us to believe and engage the…
• Kingdom Math Aug 24, 2015 In the kingdom of God the surest way to lose something is to try to protect it, and the best way to keep it is to let it go.~A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)And Jesus answered them, “The…
• Alabaster Jar Aug 24, 2015 Our notion of sacrifice is the wringing out of us something we don’t want to give up, full of pain and agony and distress. The Bible idea of sacrifice is that I give as a love-gift…
• Living AAA-o Jun 10, 2015 “Anything, Anytime, Anywhere – Bar Nothing”~ Slogan of the 39th Infantry Regiment, US ARMY You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in…
• What If You Just Knew? Feb 6, 2015 What if you had walked in on the ‘smoking gun’ of the resurrection? What if you smelled the scent of the freshest air you had ever breathed in the tomb of dead Man who was no…
• Living A God-Sized Gospel Jan 28, 2015 The old life is dead. You are dead to it. You will not be consumed by it; you cannot be controlled by it. You have a newer and higher life. Let it have full scope… You…
• Abandoning Chaos Aug 24, 2014 If you don’t surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.~E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will…
• Seize The Day? That’s in The Bible, Right? Nov 17, 2013 Seize The Day! Carpe Diem? Wait a minute… Isn’t that somewhere in the Bible? Not… Oops… Oh beloved, it is true. We do get some things backwards sometimes. Everything in our world tells us to reach…
• The Clarifying Moments in Him Oct 20, 2013 We say that Jesus preached the gospel, but he did more. He came that there might be a gospel to preach.Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes…
• His to Give Or Take Feb 21, 2013 Surrender not only what the Lord does to you, but surrender your reaction to what he does.~Madame Jeanne Marie de La Mothe Guyon (1648-1717)For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those…
• Total Capitulation Jan 25, 2013 Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. ~Andrew Murray If the Gospel is the most important fact in the universe, the following may be the most condescending: The power to…
• Carriers of The Presence Jan 20, 2013 It is not the nature of what you are doing that determines its spirituality, but the origin of what you are doing. Not its nature, but its origin! ~ Ian Thomas Now thanks be to God…
• There Is A Reason Mar 25, 2012 Axiom: It is all about Him.Bedrock: The Bible Is True.What does this all mean for mankind?Well, it seems a bunch of folks have thought about this very question for many centuries. They have poured over the…
• Odyssey Aug 24, 2011 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. — John 10:10 All of everything is surely all about Him. The astounding over-pressure of…

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