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Torrent from The Tabernacle Aug 27, 2018 In what strange quarries and stoneyards the stones for the celestial wall are being hewn! Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride; deep in the darkness of crushed despair; in the fretting and dusty atmosphere of…
Black Saturday: Where Death and Life Meet Mar 31, 2018 It is Saturday We are bewildered We are scared What happened to Him could happen to us We are waiting for what He said but the silence is deafening Doubt-filled fear controls most moments If true,…
Sudah (Already): The Nature of Truth Oct 12, 2017 The beauty of truth is that it needs no defense. ~ Makala Barnabas Doulos Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not…
Jesus Is Bigger Jul 24, 2017 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…
Suffering: Letting Go for The Good Mar 9, 2017 O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of Your presence, Your love, and Your strength. Help us to have perfect trust in Your protecting love…
Crushed to Strength by God Dec 1, 2016 I tell you, if you are serious about wanting to be like Christ, God is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him. ~ Francis Frangipane O Lord,…
Nothing But Christ And Him Crucified Sep 19, 2016 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.~ CS Lewis And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to…
The Centrality of the Cross Jul 4, 2014 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. ~ The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 2:2 The Cross is crucial. Even our word “crucial” (for something that is most critical,…
Level Ground at the Foot of The Cross Aug 13, 2013 When Christ brings his cross, he brings his presence; and where he is, none is desolate, and there is no room for despair. As he knows his own, so he knows how to comfort them, using…
The Full Benefit of The Cross Jul 19, 2013 Human beings are only bearable when the last defenses of their egos are down; when they stand, helpless and humbled, before the awful circumstances of their being. It is only thus that the point of the…
Non-Linear Obedience May 9, 2013 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion.~C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though…
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…
A Tribute to My Mom, And A Message to Us Men Jan 23, 2012 Happy Birthday Mom, The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. Isaiah 40:8 Oh man, is earthly life short. Oh my, eternity is forever. There is a woman i…
All Down… One Up Oct 22, 2011 It is impossible to carry whatever cross G_d desires for us if we still have anything in our hands. Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,…
It Really Happened Sep 19, 2011 “When Christ bids us come and follow, He bids us come and die,” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Don’t listen to that old man’s voice in your head any more. He’s dead. Reckon it true believer. Reckoning does…
The Divine Exchange: 10 Things Jesus Accomplished on the Cross Jul 7, 2011 Derek Prince has a profound respect for Scripture and it’s emphasis on the Grace of God. Paul Ellis posted this portion of a Derek Prince sermon on another blog. It is important reading. ___________I’ve been looking…
The Cross Makes the Way! But HOW Do We Walk Forward? Apr 25, 2011 1 Timothy 6:16 He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen. The Cross is the only…
Vicious. Beyond Brutal. Wonderful. For Us… Apr 23, 2011 In the near-term, this just SO didn’t make sense. Jesus Christ never sinned, only loved, taught, healed and shared His true Life during the three short years of His ministry. And what did He get in…