Discipline

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Fighting At Peace May 9, 2018 Better to be a Warrior in a Garden that a Gardener in a War. ~ Sun Tzu And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills…
Discipline: Wider Bore And Deeper Stroke Jan 12, 2017 To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when…
Obedience: The Long Walk Home Dec 6, 2016 And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily–open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love…
The Beauty And Stress of Renewal Mar 8, 2016 God entrusted his reputation to ordinary people. Yet in some way invisible to us, those ordinary people filled with the Spirit are helping to restore the universe to its place under the reign of God. At…
Utterly, Completely Done Jan 23, 2016 Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.~ Brennan Manning It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is…
Missing The Feast for A Bite of Porridge Oct 4, 2015 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?…
Separation And Restoration May 27, 2015 We have not to do with a God who is off there above the sky, who can deal with us only through the violation of physical law. We have instead a God in whom we live…
Factional Disaster Aug 9, 2014 Show a man his failures without Jesus, and the result will be found in the roadside gutter. Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece…