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• A Blessing upon The Opening of The Sanctuary of Solutions in Jesus Christ, in Mombasa, Kenya on July 4th Jun 28, 2021 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering ten-thousand times ten-thousand and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is…
• Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum May 19, 2020 (Latin: If you want peace, prepare for war) We live in a culture that, as Cardinal Francis George said, “permits everything and yet forgives nothing.” And so people despair of being forgiven and feel compelled to…
• Spent unto Strength Sep 14, 2018 Heaven is not a resting place, where men may sleep out an eternity; there they rest not day nor night, but their work is their rest and continual recreation, and toil and weariness have no place…
• Beauty: A Powerful Proof of Truth Jul 5, 2018 “The thing that I was experiencing and dwelling on the entire time is that there are so many things that are not OK and that will never be OK again,” says Newsom. “But there’s also so…
• Winding Down without Giving Up May 7, 2018 A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath. ~Anthony Liccione I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,…
• Beaten by Grace Mar 26, 2018 Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. … If you reject the ragamuffin gospel…
• Eternity’s Echo in Time Jan 7, 2018 Augustine tells of a vision of seeing a little boy at a beach scooping up the ocean thimbleful by thimbleful and emptying it out on the sand. Then he sees an angel who tells him that…
• The Rhythm of His Grace. Jul 29, 2017 Selfishness is a gangrene, eating at the very vitals. Sin is a cancer, poisoning the blood. Peace is the rhythm of our wills with Jesus’ love-will. ~Samuel Dickey Gordon (1859-1936) “Herein is love, not that we…
• Already Seated Above The Fight Apr 29, 2017 It has come these days with new light and power that the first thing we have to see to as we draw near to God day by day is that our fellowship is with the Father,…
• The Bondservant’s Advantage Apr 12, 2017 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…
• Fighting Poverty: Lavish Waste Mar 31, 2017 We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~Mother Teresa and when James and Cephas and John, who…
• The Power in Our Exhaustion Mar 4, 2017 Thine am I, I was born for thee, What wouldst thou, Master, make of me? Give me death or give me life Give health or give infirmity Give honor or give obloquy Give peace profound or…
• Relentless Reminders of The New Creation Dec 20, 2016 The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with…
• Jesus Is The Abundant Life Dec 3, 2016 Beware of hindering yourselves with any weight of earthly cares. Examine your hearts most closely, and purge out each besetting sin with a godly prayerful jealousy. Remember that blessed rule, “looking unto Jesus.” Peter did run…
• Learning to Live in A Post-War Space Aug 10, 2016 The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more – this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or…
• Shining in The Falling Dark Jul 5, 2016 Christ is full and sufficient for all his people. He is bread, wine, milk, living waters, to feed them; he is a garment of righteousness to cover and adorn them; a Physician to heal them; a…
• Losing Our Mind to Gain His Jun 22, 2016 Conversion is a deep work—a heart work. It goes throughout the man, throughout the mind, throughout the members, throughout the entire life.~Joseph Alleine (1634-1663)Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way…
• Not in Vain May 25, 2016 Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever… If you reject the ragamuffin gospel and…
• Bright-Eyed Brothers in His Arms May 17, 2016 Have you any idea what it is like to look into the eyes of a person you have just touched with the gospel and watched Jesus set them free? Have you ever seen the countenance of…
• Crazy Old Fool May 13, 2016 The Father says today go out in your day and overwhelm the enemy with your joy. My kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy. Your peace and your joy will cause the enemy to be bread for…
• Worshipping The Wrong god. May 8, 2016 It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers will bring us to Him. When it becomes…
• After Good Friday: Eternity in A Choice Mar 25, 2016 When you squeeze the Bible hard enough, what drips out is Relationship and Righteousness. Love and choice are components of relationship and the interplay between our lack of righteousness and His willingness to restore the relationship,…
• Making The Way Clear Mar 17, 2016 “Way! Way! Way!” came the voice. “Way for the White Barbarian King, the guest of the Tisroc (may he live forever)! Way for the Narnian lords.”. . . It was quite unlike any other party they…
• 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…
• Staying On Mission Feb 23, 2016 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 NeeNow I would remind…
• The Gospel: So Much Bigger Than We Can Comprehend Jan 24, 2016 The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with…
• The Christmas War-cry: PEACE! JOY! HOPE! Dec 14, 2015 Christmas… He is forever now with us through His birth, life, death, Resurrection, and the sending of His Spirit. We have no idea yet how important this is for us individually – and for the entire…
• Keeping The Right Stuff on The Right Side of OBTW Dec 5, 2015 What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.~ Aiden Wilson Tozer Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in…
• Doomed by Theology Nov 26, 2015 Jesus extends mercy beyond theology.~ Andy Stanley The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking, But I never knew before. I never dreamed… I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas…
• The Light Is On – Do We Know We Are Home? Nov 17, 2015 Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.~Brennan Manning So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For…
• 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…
• Ministry Update – Greetings from Tianjin! Nov 7, 2015 So many changes in our lives! And God is still wonderfully the same! View this email in your browser Further down the path, and definitely down in temperature 🙂 Wow, it has been nearly three months…
• Divide And Fall: The Problem of Dualism Oct 31, 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…
• 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…
• Don’t Forget The Wound Sep 29, 2015 No man ever got so much out of a surgical operation as Adam did.Originally one, he has fallen, and, breaking up… he has filled the whole earth with the pieces.~Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Hear, you…
• Shine Like Stars in The Universe… Sep 18, 2015 He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us, he makes his sun to shine and his dew to fall upon us,…
• One Last Fight Sep 3, 2015 I know a place where death is nothing more than a distant memory that is forever conquered. A place with no more tears, but only of truth and light and peace and of the most intense…
• ὑπερπλεονάζω (hyperpleonazō): The Exceedingly Abundantly Normal State of Grace Jun 30, 2015 There is within the limitless confines of the Trinity, a Love so real as to shatter any conception we have ever had of the word. The Love of G_d, is the very substance of who He…
• Boldly Proclaiming The Mystery of The Gospel Jun 30, 2015 The Bible is a stream wherein the elephant may swim and the lamb may wade.~Pope Gregory the Great (540-604) In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming…
• Freedom from Darkness May 21, 2015 He that is good is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.~Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)As the Father has loved me, so have I loved…
• Truth or Comfort? Mar 1, 2015 If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the…
• Living A God-Sized Gospel Jan 28, 2015 The old life is dead. You are dead to it. You will not be consumed by it; you cannot be controlled by it. You have a newer and higher life. Let it have full scope… You…
• Resting into Victory Jan 3, 2015 There are three kinds of faith in Christ: 1. Struggling faith, like a man in deep water desperately swimming. 2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the side of a boat. 3. Resting faith, like…
• When A Big Splash Only Makes Little Waves Dec 9, 2014 Christ turned the world’s accepted standards upside down. It was the poor, not the rich, who were blessed; the weak, not the strong, who were to be esteemed; the pure in heart, not the sophisticated and…
• 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…
• Mighty Men of Valor Nov 13, 2014 The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God’s…
• Free In Him Oct 14, 2014 We are to be re-made. All the rabbit in us is to disappear—the worried, conscientious, ethical rabbit as well as the cowardly and sensual rabbit. We shall bleed and squeal as the handfuls of fur come…
• Living in The Right Direction Sep 2, 2014 Many people think that a “spiritual Christian” is mystical, dreamy, impractical, and distant. When he prays, he shifts his voice into a sepulchral tone in tremolo. This kind of unctuous piety is a poor example of…
• Egypt and Victory Today Sep 2, 2014 Recently had a student approach this teacher and ask a few questions…Deuteronomy 31:8 says: “He is the LORD that goes before you, He will be with you, He will not fail you, He will not forsake…
• Abandoning A Fallen Gospel Jul 2, 2014 No one survives the preaching of the Gospel. Either the hearer will die to self and come to rest on the Bedrock of true belief, or they will die alone in their sins. There is no…
• κηρυξον τον λογον – Keruxon ton Logon – Preach the Word May 18, 2014 Preach the Word. Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary use words.~St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Most of us have seen and/or heard the words of this great saint. And oh, are they so…
• Understanding And Living in Spiritual Authority Apr 30, 2014 The sovereignty of Christ from the cross is a new sovereignty. It has destroyed forever the formula that might is right. It has put to shame the self-assertion of false heroism. It has surrounded with imperishable…
• Ultimatum Apr 16, 2014 We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. A.W. Tozer The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. ~Isaiah 40:8 Oh beloved,…
• The New Normal Jan 10, 2014 Only in seeing ourselves as both completely full in Him and, totally desperate for more of Him, can we find the beginning of the infiniteness of our relationship with the Person of Jesus Christ.~Makala Barnabas DoulosReceive…
• In Him… Here… Now… One with Him Nov 13, 2013 My Dear Brother, Laying aside the possibility that you are enjoying the wonders of having gone stark raving mad, I would surmise that you have come to understand that you are utterly one with Christ. One…
• Rebellion: The Enemy of True Freedom Oct 30, 2013 The Bible everywhere takes for granted Israel’s ability to obey the law. Condemnation fell because Israel, having that ability, refused to obey. They sinned not out of amiable weakness, but out of deliberate rebellion against the…
• The Clarifying Moments in Him Oct 20, 2013 We say that Jesus preached the gospel, but he did more. He came that there might be a gospel to preach.Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes…
• Going Over The Edge Oct 20, 2013 From a writer who simply told G_d: “Just do whatever you gotta do.”Simply having good theology, without willingness to obey, is like putting a case of oil in the trunk of our car and calling it…
• A Friend: Safely Home Oct 14, 2013 Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah! I am with the Lord! Glory, ready, go!—From the scaffold~Charles J. Guiteau (1841-1882)But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve…
• Redemption And Lift Oct 13, 2013 You have much to learn…. Life will not be long enough to learn all, but you are gaining that Spirit-Vision which replaces the eyes of your mortal body when you enter into a life of fuller…
• Definitely Not Home Yet Oct 2, 2013 Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a divine center, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our…
• Fully Dead and Completely Alive! Sep 10, 2013 The purpose of Christ’s redeeming work was to make it possible for bad men to become good—deeply, radically, and finally.~A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are…
• Stand We Will Aug 4, 2013 God creates out of nothing—wonderful, you say; yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful. He makes saints out of sinners.~Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Now to Him who is able to keep…
• The Threefold Manifold Grace of God Jul 17, 2013 The vast majority of people I know who have come into grace have been so set free from sin. Only a few ‘have abused it’ and it’s not like the story is over with them yet…
• Astounding Righteousness Jun 23, 2013 When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God’s generous grace.Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )You, however, are not in the flesh…
• Seven Jun 18, 2013 To cling to my natural virtues is quite sufficient to obscure the work of God in me.~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)Then I saw in the right hand of Him who was seated on the throne a scroll written…
• Exactly The Right Time, Exactly The Right Place Jun 13, 2013 The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. ~Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894) And you were…
• Missing The Point May 4, 2013 God’s justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes…
• The Tragedy of The Gospel Apr 23, 2013 The words of our Lord, “Think not that I came to cast peace on the earth: I came not to cast peace, but a sword,” are a description of what happens when the gospel is preached—upset,…
• No Survivors Apr 23, 2013 No one survives the preaching of the Gospel. Either the hearer will die to self and come to rest on the Bedrock of true belief, or they will die alone in their sins. There is no…
• He Spoke Your Name Apr 21, 2013 Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he’s not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn.~Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God,…
• The Colossal Gospel Apr 1, 2013 What the world calls virtue, without Christ, is a name and a dream. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer’s cross and in the power of his…
• Michael III… Conclusion or Beginning? Mar 17, 2013 We say that Jesus preached the gospel, but he did more. He came that there might be a gospel to preach. ~ Oswald Chambers But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon…
• The Illusion of Hardness Mar 8, 2013 The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle Master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.~A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) All things have been handed over to…
• The Great Lie of Education Mar 7, 2013 The most important things in life we need to learn are precisely those things that cannot be taught.~Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Psalm 111:10, Proverbs 9:10, Acts…
• More Now Than Then Feb 20, 2013 Jesus Christ came to do what no human being can do: he came to redeem men, to alter their disposition, to plant in them the Holy Spirit, to make them new creatures. Christianity is not the…
• Epicenter of The Gospel Feb 19, 2013 And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that…
• Real Feb 11, 2013 Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.~Robert Browning (1812-1889) Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps My works until the end, to him I will…
• 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…
• Order of Magnitude Living (10x) Jan 18, 2013 If the Gospel we preach does not work in the developing world, we seriously need to consider whether or not we are actually preaching the true Good News Jesus gave to us.~ Makala B. DoulosSince therefore…
• Epic Flow Jan 16, 2013 How dread are thine eternal years, O everlasting Lord!By prostrate spirits day and night incessantly adored!How beautiful, how beautiful the sight of thee must be,Thine endless wisdom, boundless power, and awful purity!~Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) Do…
• Utter Chaos Dec 14, 2012 Make me a captive, Lord, and then I shall be free; Force me to render up my sword, and I shall conqueror be. I sink in life’s alarms when by myself I stand; Imprison me within…
• Fully Committed to His Goodness. Nov 24, 2012 A man can’t always be defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident…
• 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…
• Earnestly Contending Oct 25, 2012 Time’s glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,To stamp the seal of time in aged things,To wake the morn and sentinel the night,To wrong the wronger till he render right,To…
• He Will Show Us The Paths of Life Oct 6, 2012 Holy Spirit of God, visit now this soul of mine, and tarry within it until the eventide. Inspire all my thoughts. Pervade all my imaginations. Suggest all my decisions. Lodge in my soul’s most inward citadel,…
• Harmony of The Gospel Jul 14, 2012 One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.~A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) “I’m not praying only for them. I’m…
• Beyond Efficiency Mar 5, 2012 “What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is…
• The Gospel Is Binary Oct 21, 2011 The Gospel is binary. It either works in our lives, or it doesn’t. ~ an old saint at a men’s local Bible study For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every…
• Living Fragrant Oct 18, 2011 Watchman Nee was a brother who had a particular handle on the interface between the ‘mystical’ and the ‘practical’ aspects of the Christian Life. His classic, “The Normal Christian Life” is required reading in many Bible…
• 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…
• Every! All! Abundant! May 7, 2011 “And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that…
• Do Not Miss This Apr 23, 2011 Do not miss this. Drop what you are doing. Take 11:27 and hear this message about the Gospel and HOW He works in and through us to bring victory in life and glory to Himself. Love…

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