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Reconciled from Bitterness Apr 4, 2022 There1 is one source of power that is stronger than every disappointment, bitterness or ingrained mistrust, and that power is Jesus Christ, Who brought forgiveness and reconciliation to the world.~Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005) Strive for peace…
Leaving The Yoke of Bondage Jul 29, 2021 Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We…
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,…
Desert Warfare: Winning on The Toughest Battlefields Jul 23, 2018 When Christ formed in us finds free course for all His mind and all His passion; when our eyes are opened to the great purposes of His life in the salvation of the whole world; and…
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…
Some of My Students Interview Me Jun 4, 2018 TIS SENIORS’ RESEARCH PAPER – Reasons For Faith BY: (JY, DL, KBY) Introduction This research emerged from discussions in our ‘Reasons for Faith’ class and is aimed to research the theme of ‘worldviews’. Methodologically, we approached…
Moving The Fulcrum of Our Minds May 17, 2018 The Kingdom of God is initially a foreign country to us. We are not residents of the world, but citizens of Heaven, learning what that means. Our first experience in life is with the language and…
Plasma Life: Living on The Right Side of Psalm 73 Jan 1, 2018 The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out…
Shipwrecked at The Prison Cell’s Open Door Sep 17, 2017 You are free. You just don’t know it yet. ~Francine Rivers For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery… For you were called to…
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…
Crushing Loads: Handling Stress in Life Jun 9, 2017 When the turbulence comes, it is time to simplify life and stay within the grace of only one day at a time, everything else being largely the projections of imaginations, full of wind and fury, signifying…
The Incorrigible Old Man May 13, 2017 What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own…
Wobbly Warrior Nov 20, 2016 Henri Nouwen wrote of the spiritual work of gratitude: To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives—the good as well as…
De-Invictus: Why The Flesh Is So Big Aug 2, 2015 Through his death on the cross Jesus Christ not only readjusts a man in conscience and heart to God, he does something grander, he imparts to him the power to do all God wants, he presences…
Do You Really Want That? Feb 17, 2015 It is easier to perceive error than truth, for error lies on the surface and is easily seen, truth lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Jesus…
The Futility of The Flesh Sep 1, 2014 All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin,…
Selling Tents: A Metaphor May 7, 2012 I am wrapped in mortality, my flesh is a prison, my bones the bars of death. What is mortality but the things related to the body, which dies. What is immortality but the things related to…
Death Spiral Apr 10, 2012 Flesh is the Bible’s word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the h and spelling it in reverse we have the world self. Flesh is the self-life: it is what we are when we are left…
A Prayer of Surrender May 2, 2011 François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, or simply Fenelon in Christian circles today, was a French Archibishop during the late 1600’s and early 1700’s. His insights on the core issues of dying to self and total…
From the Cross into The Endless Frontier of His Grace! Apr 24, 2011 Some very applicable thoughts from Eric Ludy of Ellerslie as we get ready to celebrate Easter. Jesus is Victorious! Let us join in that victory celebration tomorrow as true participants in the rebellion Jesus launched on…