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• The Freedom in Continued Shattered Dreams Jul 8, 2020 The goal is that God be glorified in us, not that He be useful to us. ~ Larry Crabb And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to Him, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at…
• Walk Tall, Shine for Him, and Look to Him for HIS approval. Apr 24, 2018 Obey God and Leave All the Consequences to Him. ~ Charles Stanley Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but You have not let me know whom You will…
• Him Alone: Is He Really Enough? Jan 8, 2018 No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things,…
• God Our Battle Fighter! Aug 22, 2017 This reminds all of us who have given public testimony of our faith in Christ, that we are still in an enemy’s country. You remember how Bunyan (to quote the great Dreamer again) represents Christiana and…
• The Presence of G_d: Blue Skies in The Storms of Life. Jul 25, 2017 The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ~Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by…
• Jesus: Ancient of Days And New Forever Mar 27, 2017 I came to love You late, O Beauty so ancient and new; I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside, where I rushed about wildly searching for You like some…
• A Father’s Broken Heart Feb 21, 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…
• Thankful G_d Is Not A god of Our Own Understanding Feb 13, 2017 Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God’s indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand…
• God’s Attributes: Love Beyond Our Thoughts Feb 12, 2017 This entry explores how G_d is so much beyond our ability to understand…. And yet, we know Him.
• That He May Know Us Jan 16, 2017 We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become the objects in which the Divine love may rest…
• Don’t Even Bring That Weak Stuff In Here Dec 21, 2016 Our reservations are the damnations of our consecrations. ~ William Booth (1829-1912) You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)…
• Power In His Presence Dec 13, 2016 God is not a belief to which you give your assent. God becomes a reality whom you know intimately, meet every day, one whose strength becomes your strength, whose love, your love. Live this life of…
• The Event Horizon of Existence Oct 5, 2016 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and round the throne…
• Beyond Our Wildest Dreams Aug 17, 2016 God is the light in my darkness, the voice in my silence.~Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)God is the great reality. His resources are available and endless. His promises are real and glorious, beyond our wildest dreams.~J. B.…
• What Fools These Mortals Be Jul 10, 2016 To hold on to the plough while wiping our tears—this is Christianity.~Watchman Nee (1903-1972)Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the…
• In The Near Presence May 9, 2016 A re-post on the near Presence of G_d….Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched…
• Listen… You Can Hear It. May 1, 2016 Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not ~C.S. Lewis I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, ~ Song of Songs 1:5 How precious to me are your thoughts,…
• Loved by A King Apr 18, 2016 Don’t miss this beloved. The air of Heaven is real. The waters of the River of Life are the wettest and freshest and alivest there will ever be. And the most real part will not be…
• Lent Reflection: Understanding The Love of A Father Mar 18, 2016 Be content to be a child, and let the Father proportion out daily to thee what light, what power, what exercises, what straits, what fears, what troubles he sees fit for thee.~Isaac Penington (1616-1679)Now Jesus was…
• Love Across All Time Dec 1, 2015 I am. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come;…
• Defragmenting The Gospel: Understanding The Word Nov 9, 2015 Jesus 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 NeeBut…
• Beyond Half-Full or Half-Empty Oct 23, 2015 One word from the lips of the man who has actually heard the lute play will have more effect than a score of sermons by the man who has only heard that it was played. Acquaintance…
• The Mythology of Theology Oct 18, 2015 As the grave grows nearer, my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.~Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901)I have many more things to say to you,…
• Behind Grace… The Love of G_d Oct 13, 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,…
• Comprehensively Saved Aug 31, 2014 The nausea of being the thing I was leapt from my throat like sobbing….~Dacia Maraini (1936- )“The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, ‘You are a priest forever.’” This makes Jesus the guarantor…
• Bigger Than The Words Can Say Jul 28, 2014 If the mind of God as discovered to us in his Word and works is so vast and deep, what must his mind be in all its undisclosed resources in the infinity and eternity of its…
• Myrtle Jun 20, 2014 Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.~Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor…
• What if You Had No “Why?” May 22, 2014 Shall we think that with our tiny brains we can unravel the mysteries of Him who made the whole vast cosmos? He who causes things to be must smile in great pity when He hears men…
• Bring It On – Real Battle Apr 22, 2014 When the work presses, and the battle thickens, and the day seems long in coming, it is good for the heart to remember that the present conflict is with defeated foes, and that there is no…
• 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…
• Utterly in The Presence Feb 19, 2014 Few delights can equal the presence of one we trust utterly~ George McDonaldI was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast towards You.Nevertheless, I am continually with You; You hold my right hand. You guide…
• Unfathomable Weight of Glory Dec 28, 2013 What a book! Great and wide as the world, rooted in the abysmal depths of creation and rising aloft into the blue mysteries of heaven. Sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfillment, birth and death, the whole…
• Out of the Chaos Sep 18, 2013 Some of us can only hear God in the thunder of revivals or in public worship; we have to learn to listen to God’s voice in the ordinary circumstances of life.~ Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) But now…
• 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…
• Axiom: It is All About Him Aug 14, 2013 “Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, but love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak. Were we to hold our peace the stones would cry out; yet if…
• We Are Because He Is Jun 21, 2013 I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us…
• 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…
• The Infinite Proposition of Grace Mar 28, 2013 The gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the truth that it reveals is not palatable or easy to swallow. There is a certain…
• The Catalyst of His Grace… Faith Mar 4, 2013 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. יְהֹוָה Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God…
• Out of The Whirlwind Mar 3, 2013 Things human must be known to be loved; things divine must be loved to be known.~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Complete happiness is knowing God. ~ John Calvin And this is eternal life, that they know you the…
• True Quality of Life Mar 1, 2013 You are wisdomYou are peaceYou are beautyYou are eternal life.~Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) When Jesus had spoken these words, He lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify…
• The Power and The Glory Feb 9, 2013 As believer’s our absolute assurance of future glory should motivate our present choices to be such that they give the world a proper opinion of Who God is (i.e., that our actions glorify God) ~Bruce Hurt…
• Avalanche Jan 15, 2013 Jesus redefines the meaning of love for neighbor; it means love for any man in need.~George Eldon Ladd (1911-1982)For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will…
• Treasured Nov 18, 2012 God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.~Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)The sweet, fragrant curves of your body, the soft, spiced contours of your flesh invite me, and I come. I…
• but GOD Nov 15, 2012 “Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself.”Charles H. Spurgeon Genesis 31:7 Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times,…
• The Unity of Goodness Nov 11, 2012 The Lord’s goodness surrounds us at every moment. I walk through it almost with difficulty, as through thick grass and flowers.~ R. W. Barbour (1900- ) Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift…
• Soaking In The Flow of His Presence Oct 28, 2012 Fountain of life, and all-abounding grace,Our source, our center, and our dwelling place!~Madame Jeanne Marie de La Mothe Guyon (1648-1717)Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD; For the day of the LORD is at…
• Abundance of Position Oct 15, 2012 As members of the human race, we are shrouded in ignorance. Barely do we know our world around us; even less do we know the nature of our own souls. Without realizing it, as we search…
• Truth… A Necessary Beginning Sep 5, 2012 What is real? How do you define real? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.…
• The Triumph of Love May 27, 2012 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…
• To Be Full May 18, 2012 A heart in every thought renewed And full of love divine,Perfect and right and pure and good,A copy, Lord, of thine.~Charles Wesley (1707-1788)Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! My soul continually…
• In His Image Mar 30, 2012 The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted…
• There Is A Reason Mar 25, 2012 Axiom: It is all about Him.Bedrock: The Bible Is True.What does this all mean for mankind?Well, it seems a bunch of folks have thought about this very question for many centuries. They have poured over the…
• Children of Light Mar 20, 2012 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…
• His Name Is Above All Names! Dec 25, 2011 There are over 200 names and titles for Christ in the Bible…..today, we celebrate THE greatest gift of all….Almighty (Rev. 1:8; Mt. 28:18)Alpha and Omega (Rev. 1:8; 22:13)Amen (Rev. 3:14)Apostle of our Profession (Heb. 3:1)Atoning Sacrifice…
• For Love Of You Aug 26, 2011 Oh my. Sometimes an artist says something amazing with the work they allow G_d to do through them. Young Audrey Assad hits one out of the park with the debut song on her debut album, The…
• Don’t Block The Flow Jul 30, 2011 As for that which is beyond your strength, be absolutely certain that our Lord loves you, devotedly and individually, loves you just as you are. . . . Accustom yourself to the wonderful thought that God…
• Glorious Love Jul 25, 2011 I’m so bored of little gods while standin’ on the edge of something large. While standin’ here so close to you… we – could – be – consumed. What a glorious day… I rest my face…
• Needless Desire Jul 16, 2011 Only God can meet our deepest need because only God has no need Himself. And as we more fully understand that God needs nothing, perhaps we as his children can more fully know the depths of…
• The Purpose of Life Jul 14, 2011 GLORIFY G_D, ENJOY HIS PRESENCE FOREVER… A long 36-year path for me has led to a single conclusion: The only reasonable way for me to live my life is to utterly surrender all that I have…
• Early And Often (As In Without Ceasing) Jul 1, 2011 As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) An intercessor means one who is in such vital contact with God…
• Three Words to Avoid Jun 18, 2011 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him. And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to…
• Who Is This One? Jun 3, 2011 “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us…no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains…
• The Primacy of The Good News May 21, 2011 “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.” (note found under…

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