Belief

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• A Thin Place: Παῦλος, The Least of Apostles, writes a final note to Ἰωάννης – The Beloved Disciple 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…
• 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…
• CQ 6:33 – Looking for The Kingdom First Mar 7, 2018 How can you find out if you are living within the will of God? Here is the sign: If you are troubled about any thing, this means that you have not completely given yourself over to…
• When the day is ArgbffrugahappppooorooiasdKnafffjnawrviuner!!! Feb 27, 2018 Son, I know you are embarrassed but you need to know that I am not embarrassed of you. I committed you to a tough fight because you have to see and understand how much you need…
• Oh Billy! Thanks for The Memories Feb 25, 2018 Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ…. The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin—but it…
• Treasure in The Junk of Our Lives Feb 21, 2018 When I saw my name on Nancy’s reply and realized I hadn’t received it, I found it in my Junk file. There is a message from God here – you have to continually search your junk…
• Heaviness Before Lightness Feb 19, 2018 “Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And…
• Not Today: Nope Sep 26, 2017 Falsehood – and only falsehood – separates us from God … False thoughts, false words, false feelings, false desires – Behold the aggregate of lies that leads us to non-being, illusion, and rejection of God. ~St.…
• Believe, Or Don’t. There Is No Middle Ground Sep 25, 2017 The practical thing to do since God is our Fortress and our High Tower is to surrender by faith to put ourselves and all our interests into this divine dwelling place. Then we must dismiss all…
• Fighting The Unbelief within Us Aug 14, 2017 When my sense of self depends on what others say of me, anger is a quite natural reaction to a critical word. And when my sense of self depends on what I can acquire, greed flares…
• Got to Get Away from The Perspective of Disbelief Aug 3, 2017 If at any time you feel disposed again to say, “It is enough,” and that you can bear of the burden of life no longer, do as Elijah did, flee into the silence of solitude, and…
• Breakthroughs Into Eternal Spaces Jun 22, 2017 Just as people do not enter a war in order to enjoy war, but in order to be saved from war, so we do not enter this world in order to enjoy this world, but in…
• Deeper Belief: Into Who Jesus Is May 25, 2017 The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a…
• G_d Is Bigger May 6, 2017 The enemies of Christ are triumphant, Christianity is a failure, they say, and the church of God herself looks on in pain at the shortcomings in her midst. But lo, at length from the very heart…
• Already Seated Above The Fight Apr 29, 2017 It has come these days with new light and power that the first thing we have to see to as we draw near to God day by day is that our fellowship is with the Father,…
• G_d: I Just Thought You Would Want to Know Mar 14, 2017 If you expect to find peace in the friendship of any person, you are likely to be disappointed. But if you are intimate with God, the disloyalty or death of a friend will not crush you.…
• The Poverty of Sin vs. Stronghold of His Presence Dec 17, 2016 What if the biggest problem in America is not drugs, or pornography, or abortion, or poverty, or low education, or terrorism, or crime? What if the biggest problem in America is simply the lack of goodness?…
• On The Other Side of 50: A Weeping Warrior Nov 15, 2016 The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ~ CS Lewis He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver; I have become the laughingstock…
• Buffeted into Belief Sep 7, 2016 matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he…
• Learning to Live in A Post-War Space Aug 10, 2016 The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more – this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or…
• Just Doin’ My Job Jun 19, 2016 Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them.~John Ruskin (1819-1900)The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” And the Lord said, “If you had faith like…
• 112 – Real Time Prophesy Apr 29, 2016 It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where…
• Every Hair on Our Head Apr 24, 2016 We contradict the Lord to his face when we say: It is hard, it is difficult; we cannot, we are men; we are encompassed with fragile flesh. O blind madness! O unholy audacity! We charge the…
• A Man Under Authority Sep 14, 2015 Our world is fast becoming a madhouse, and the inmates are trying to run the asylum. It is a strange time when the patients are writing the prescriptions, the students are threatening to run the schools,…
• Eternally Adored Jul 28, 2015 Nothing lasts here. Storms come, people die, hearts break and sin abounds. And two weeks (or two years) is not enough to kill the pain. Nothing is able to meet our heart’s most desperate desire for…
• Loved And Lovable Jun 23, 2015 Love is a believing creature.~OvidYou’re so beautiful, my darling, so beautiful, and your dove eyes are veiled by your hair as it flows and shimmers, like a flock of goats in the distance streaming down a…
• Tough Faith in A Tough Jesus Feb 22, 2015 Faith is blind—except upward. It is blind to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.~Samuel Dickey Gordon (1859-1936) And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling…
• 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…
• Big Faith Nov 25, 2014 Little faith will bring your soul to heaven; great faith will bring heaven to your soul.~Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a…
• The Resting of Obedience Jun 8, 2014 How shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest; there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half that Is withheld.…
• The Freedom in G_d’s Unchangingness Apr 16, 2014 All that which we call the attributes of God are only so many human ways of our conceiving that abyssal All which can neither be spoken nor conceived by us. And this way of thinking and…
• Giving Heaven And Earth for Love Feb 25, 2014 I have always been filled with the fires of the love of a God not old, and now to this has been joined the passion of the love of a young man. That love, dear earth,…
• The Experience of Knowledge Jan 21, 2014 He who has not believed will not experience, and he who has not experienced will not understand; for just as experiencing a thing is better than hearing about it, so knowledge that stems from experience outweighs…
• The Last Battle Jan 15, 2014 One of the greatest attractions of Christianity to me is its sheer absurdity. I love all those crazy sayings in the New Testament—which, incidentally, turn out to be literally true—about how fools and illiterates and children…
• Bringing Belief to The Stillness of Knowledge Nov 18, 2013 He that is made in the image of God must know him or be desolate.~George Macdonald (1824-1905)For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom,…
• Always Time to Pray Nov 12, 2013 The potency of prayer has subdued the strength of fire; it has bridled the rage of lions,; hushed anarchy to rest,; extinguished wars; appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates…
• 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…
• Going Over The Edge Oct 20, 2013 From a writer who simply told G_d: “Just do whatever you gotta do.”Simply having good theology, without willingness to obey, is like putting a case of oil in the trunk of our car and calling it…
• Freed by The Anchor of Our Soul Aug 14, 2013 Oh G_d, i’ve let you down so many times. And He says, you can’t let me down because you don’t hold Me up. Neither did you hold Me on the cross. My Love and Righteousness held…
• Dual, Triple, and Quad G_d Apr 28, 2013 If you are a Christian, a power accompanies your life. This power is greater than great; its nature is “surpassing greatness.” It is not human power but the actual “strength of God’s might.” The Almighty demonstrated…
• Putting the Feathers Back in The Pillow! Oct 26, 2012 Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ. ~Watchman Nee, (note…
• Incomprehensible Speech Apr 17, 2012 In Christ we have a love that can never be fathomed, a life that can never die, a peace that can never be understood, a rest that can never be disturbed, a joy that can never…
• Bedrock: The Bible Is True May 20, 2011 Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself. C.H. Spurgeon The basis for this blog’s approach: THE BIBLE IS TRUE… There is just overwhelming…

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