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Decompressing off The Battlefield Jun 21, 2018 Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid (43 b.c.-a.d. 17) Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For…
Fear And Contempt: The Two Main Blocks to Relationship Apr 30, 2018 Contempt is fueled by long-festering negative thoughts about another person. When negative beliefs invade a relationship, eventually you stop seeing the positive. At that point, a thing called “confirmation bias” sets in. Confirmation bias is a…
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?…
Becoming A Target of The Enemy Mar 11, 2017 If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) In that day this song…
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…
Our Fear of Freedom Oct 7, 2015 Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus Christ Himself can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false…
Urban Bewilderment Sep 10, 2015 I was too ambitious in my deed,And thought to distance all men in success,Till God came to me, marked the place, and said,“Ill doer, henceforth keep within this line,Attempting less than others”—and I standAnd work among…
Flatland And The Illusion of Control May 10, 2015 We talk about “circumstances over which we have no control.” None of us have control over our circumstances, but we are responsible for the way we pilot ourselves in the midst of things as they are.~Oswald…
Power in Emptiness Nov 20, 2014 The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.~ Mother TeresaThree times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But He said to me, “My grace…