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• Validation: The Great Glory of An Addict Nov 20, 2022 How God thinks of us is … infinitely more important. … It is written that we shall “stand before” Him, shall appear, shall be inspected. The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only…
• Made to Burn with The Light of The Son Jul 5, 2022 The atoms like each other to different degrees. Oxygen, for instance in the air, would like to be next to carbon, and if they get near to each other, they snap together. If they’re not too…
• 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…
• Put It Down. That’s Not Your Sin Any More. May 3, 2021 The cross of Christ is God’s last and endless word. There the prince of this world is judged, there sin is killed, and pride is done to death, there lust is frozen, and self-interest slaughtered, not…
• There Has to Be More! Our Deepest Yearnings at Christmas Dec 23, 2020 It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load,…
• The Story of The Union Weld: Pain Has Meaning Nov 30, 2020 Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized…
• Just Who Do You Think You Are? Jun 14, 2020 Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back. ~Heraclitus
• The Size And Shape of The Door Aug 27, 2019 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. ~ from Galatians 5 Beloved, Scripture is clear that the way to the Kingdom is narrow.…
• Guarding Against The Identity Theft of Licentiousness Aug 11, 2019 Grace is no more a license to sin than electricity is a license to electrocute yourself. ~Dr. Paul Ellis … If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ…
• Always Remember, And Never Forget Jan 5, 2019 Far too many contemporary scholars try to explain what the Resurrection is: Oh, it’s a myth, it’s a legend, it’s a symbol, it’s a sign that Jesus’ cause goes on, that he’s a great man that…
• Ad Ora with Love Himself Jan 2, 2019 On a dark night, Inflamed by love-longing – O exquisite risk! – Undetected I slipped away. My house, at last, grown still. Secure in the darkness, I climbed the secret ladder in disguise – O exquisite…
• Never Good Enough Oct 18, 2018 Do I love God’s law? Do I delight in the law of the Lord after the inward man, not wishing it less strict and holy, but loving it because it is holy? Am I as willing…
• Saved: More Than We Know Oct 17, 2018 Jesus is The Divine Logos made flesh.~ Robert Barron See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and…
• The Infinite, Living, Quiet Center of Worship Oct 1, 2018 Worship is really about what is the center focus of our being. What is it that we value most?
• The Engineer’s Spiritual Advantage Sep 20, 2018 The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain. ~William Law He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this…
• The Bible Is A Weird Book Aug 16, 2018 The Bible is a weird book. There, I’ve got that on tape now! It is though. And I mean that as high praise! … Be patient, I tell preachers. Be patient with the Bible. Don’t run…
• Domine, non nisi Te Aug 10, 2018 The flood of temporal things draws us after itself, but in this flood there is, as it were, a full-grown tree: our Lord Jesus Christ. He took flesh, died, and ascended to heaven. It is as…
• When We Seek His Heart, We Will Find It Jun 5, 2018 If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and…
• Is This Worth It? May 27, 2018 There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.…
• Love-Driven Facts May 1, 2018 You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired…
• Hiraeth: A ‘Now And Not Yet’ Yearning for Home Apr 27, 2018 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…
• Jesus is The 道 (The Dao, or Way) Oct 20, 2017 There exists a Being undifferentiated and complete, Born before heaven and earth. Tranquil, boundless, Abiding alone and changing not, Encircling everything without exhaustion. Fathomless, it seems to be the Source of all things. I do not…
• False Sense of Failure Aug 15, 2017 What is this great shaking you are experiencing? Do not lack trust or faith, but be assured that you will receive the full reward of your endurance, as you remain faithful in the process of shaking,…
• 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,…
• Easter: Jesus in Absolute Control Apr 15, 2017 Jesus Christ alone is qualified to guide us into the vast unknown. Since he is the only one who has returned from the grave, he tells us accurately about life after death. ~Erwin W. Lutzer (1941-…
• The Word And His Work on Good Friday Apr 14, 2017 The world is the immeasurable totality of energies and forms, a tissue of relations extending into ever-increasing enormity and withdrawing into ever-decreasing minuteness. All this was thought, willed, and realized by God. Nothing was supplied for…
• Romans: The Ocean of His Righteousness Mar 29, 2017 Romans is worthy not only that every Christian should know it word for word, by heart, but occupy himself with it every day, as the daily bread of the soul. It can never be read or…
• 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…
• Rest And Belief: Intimate Bedfellows Mar 17, 2017 “The devil never rejoices more,” said Francis of Assisi, “than when he robs a servant of God of his peace of heart.” Peace and joy go a-begging when the heart of a Christian pants for one…
• Friendship with God: Let’s Do This Together Mar 13, 2017 The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men. ~William Barclay (1907-1978) I always thank my God for you because of the grace that God has…
• 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…
• Winter Is Over, Springtime Has Come Feb 7, 2017 When the lion said—but I don’t know if it spoke—‘You will have to let me undress you.’ I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I…
• Our Loss to Distraction: Finding What Matters Jan 10, 2017 To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted … not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream,…
• You Think That’s Air You’re Breathing? Finding Your True Identity Jan 7, 2017 In the first experience of sanctification we lose altogether the consciousness of our own identity, we are absorbed in God; but that is not the final place, it is merely the introduction to a totally new…
• The Creeping Panic of Isolation Dec 31, 2016 Unlovely, nay frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world—this chill, houseless, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God’s resplendent creation.…
• Freedom: Repenting from Smallness Dec 25, 2016 Over your prison cell it is has always said, “CONDEMNED.” “SEPARATED,” eternally, from God. “GUILTY”! And then suddenly, it switches when you realize what Jesus Christ has done. It says, “JUSTIFIED.” It says, “FORGIVEN,” “REDEEMED”!! ……
• Christmas Repentance Dec 24, 2016 Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe ~ Bruce Cockburn But there will be…
• 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…
• 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…
• Blessed Poverty Oct 20, 2016 If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart…
• Already There Oct 10, 2016 Let us understand that, while our bodies and souls are quite fixed here upon earth, through the agency of the Holy Spirit our spirits have been brought into direct fellowship with Christ in heaven. From this…
• Fumbling into The Presence of G_d Sep 21, 2016 When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty…
• The Beautiful Collision of Our Heart with G_d’s Aug 14, 2016 Can we see it? As our heart merges with the character He is inscribing on us and within us… This is the process of sanctification. For, as character and heart merge, we cement our destiny –…
• Dead, Freed, Alive – And Loved Forever Aug 13, 2016 There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.~François Fénelon (1651-1715)For…
• Our Very Large Salvation Jul 24, 2016 Is the living Person now in heavenly glory really the Object of our hearts? For some time after I knew the Savior I used to think of Him as One who had lived and died on…
• Becoming So Large That We Cannot Be Seen Jul 23, 2016 The man who gazes upon and contemplates day by day the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who has caught the glow of the reality that the Lord is not a theory but an indwelling…
• A King’s Rage Jul 17, 2016 The devil never rejoices more,” said Francis of Assisi, “than when he robs a servant of God of his peace of heart.” Peace and joy go a-begging when the heart of a Christian pants for one…
• That in All Things He Might Be Preeminent Apr 14, 2016 Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity… I learn the depth to which I have sunk from the length of the chain…
• 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,…
• Beyond A Civilized Existence Mar 18, 2016 Jesus taught, first, that a man’s business is to do the will of God; second, that God takes upon himself the care of that man; third, therefore, that a man must never be afraid of anything;…
• 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…
• Sustenance in The Presence of G_d Feb 21, 2016 Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. ~ Brennan Manning Now even the first covenant had regulations for…
• Overwhelming Victory in The Weakest of Packages Dec 13, 2015 Salvation rips through the surface of time in the cry of a tiny Babe.~ Bruce Cockburn The people who walked in darknesshave seen a great light;those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,on them has…
• 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…
• 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…
• Run to The Light! Sep 23, 2015 Think of stepping on shore and finding it heaven! Of taking hold of a hand and finding it God’s! Of breathing a new air and finding it celestial air! Of feeling invigorated and finding it immortality!…
• Fools in Exile Aug 23, 2015 Our Life in Christ. It’s not an easy thing to grasp. Maybe you understand it only by living it. And maybe Augustine was right on the money when he wrote: ‘Give me someone who loves and…
• The Poverty of Prosperity – Another Repost on Poverty Jul 16, 2015 Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain.~Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: “The words…
• Out of The Muck May 25, 2015 Jesus is the foundation of my whole life. He is my strength. If you have Jesus in your life, you know it, you feel it. He’s the solid rock you can stand on every day. There’s…
• Why Hiding in Christ Is Not Cowardice May 13, 2015 Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out…
• Fear Is Where You Are Looking Apr 20, 2015 I fear God, dear Abner, and have no other fear. ~ Jean RacineWhoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and…
• Love And Our Needs Mar 17, 2015 We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own…
• 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…
• Ignorance Is Not Bliss Oct 9, 2014 However, when we are employed in obtaining an assurance of His love, we are still to an extent busy with self. Our defects, regarded in peace and in the spirit of love, are instantly consumed by…
• Warrior Diet – Avoiding Junk Food Sep 9, 2014 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…
• House-to-House Spiritual Battle Sep 7, 2014 The story of your life is the story of a long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.~John Eldridge Since therefore Christ suffered in the…
• 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,…
• The Best of Days Jul 9, 2014 It is one thing to drop off or renounce certain things, and quite another to be engrossed with the right thing. Monks renounce much, but they are not occupied with the glorified Lord Jesus Christ. It…
• 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,…
• Tetelestai! It Is Finished! Apr 18, 2014 “Tetelestai” doesn’t translate simply, we have to make a phrase out of it – “It is finished.” But still some of its power is lost in the translation. In the Greek it implies that something has…
• The Overwhelming Flood of Hope Apr 7, 2014 O hope! Dazzling, radiant hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way. –Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed…
• The Just Man Justices Mar 24, 2014 God is love, not, God is loving. God and love are synonymous. Love is not an attribute of God, it is God; whatever God is, love is. If your conception of love does not agree with…
• Done Jan 31, 2014 A re-post celebrating the Home-going of my sister this week… Faraday, when asked by Acland his conception of after-death consciousness, cried out, “I shall see Him, and that will be enough for me!” Then I saw…
• Abundantly Enough Jan 19, 2014 God is more real to me than any thought or thing or person. I feel him in the sunshine or rain; and all mingled with a delicious restfulness most nearly describes my feelings. I talk to…
• Epic Fail Jan 5, 2014 The whole history of the world is discovered to be but a contest between the wisdom of God and the cunning of Satan and fallen men. The outcome of the contest is not in doubt.~A. W.…
• Provision Already Provided Nov 30, 2013 Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of His divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast His grace, how firm His faithfulness, how unswerving His immutability, how infinite His power, how…
• Someone Is Praying for You Right Now Oct 17, 2013 The oneness of the Father and the Son is absolutely crucial in our relationship to them. We step into everything that they are for one another and we live that. It’s a place of absolute joy…
• Where Did The Fear Go? Sep 5, 2013 I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ~Henry Ward Beecher Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and…
• Gotta Serve Somebody Sep 4, 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)And it was not without an oath. For…
• Still Home Aug 28, 2013 Living is learning the meaning of words. That does not mean the long ten syllable words we have to look up in the dictionary. The really great words to master are short ones—work, love, hope, joy,…
• 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…
• Michael II Mar 17, 2013 The color of the sky in the world of a mystic may indeed be a different shade of blue. But that blue is a blue brought lapis and cobalt through the bending of light through the…
• O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus! Mar 5, 2013 Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) You’ve captured my heart, dear friend. You…
• 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…
• 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…
• Putting the Feathers Back in The Pillow! Oct 26, 2012 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 Nee, (note…
• A story of Absolute Surrender Oct 22, 2012 My life is totally His. All I am All I have All I will ever be All I will ever have Are His Absolutely, Unconditionally Now and forever. ~ Makala Barnabas Doulos, 19 Oct. 2010 I…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Context Is King Sep 17, 2012 Tx: Say your position November – Charlie team member over.Rx: Indigo, November – Charlie, Hotel, Romeo, Indigo, Sierra, Tango over.Tx: 10-4 team member. Bravo-Zulu. Stay on station indefinitely over.From now on, therefore, we regard no one…
• New Thing Jul 16, 2012 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Yeah, OK, but what kind of new creation am i? Isn’t that…
• Our King Jun 10, 2012 I will cut off the chariot from EphraimAnd the horse from Jerusalem;And the bow of war will be cut off.And He will speak peace to the nations;And His dominion will be from sea to sea,And from…
• Free May 16, 2012 Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata—of creatures that worked like machines—would hardly be worth creating.…
• On The Bleeding Edge Of Joy Apr 24, 2012 Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian. — G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.…
• Foundation of The Kingdom Feb 10, 2012 Re-post on Righteousness God’s Righteousness is that foundation of His power wherein He imparts His Goodness to us, protects our hearts against evil, clothes us with right action, and imbues us with a desire for true…
• Living by Proxy Jan 30, 2012 There’s no dying by proxy.~ French Proverb God ain’t got no grandchildren~ unknown Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions…
• Best of Friends Jan 24, 2012 A re-post on who we are to G_d. “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.…
• 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…
• Jesus=Life AND Everything Else≠Life Dec 17, 2011 At length, on evening, while engaged in a prayer-meeting, the great deliverance came. I received the full witness of the Spirit that the blood of Jesus had cleansed me from all sin. I felt I was…
• The Compulsion of Hope Oct 3, 2011 O hope! Dazzling, radiant hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.~Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of…
• Married to Another Sep 9, 2011 Begin at once; before you venture away from this quiet moment, ask your King to take you wholly into his service, and place all the hours of this day quite simply at his disposal, and ask…
• The Misguided Illusion of Control Aug 17, 2011 Oh, to be free even from the conciousness of self… to be so yielded to the impartation of His Spirit as to only be Jesus to those around us. — Makala B. Doulos “When you look…
• Profound Comfort Aug 11, 2011 Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the…
• The Agony of Defeat Aug 8, 2011 “When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.” — Oswald Chambers The sting of death is sin, and…
• 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…
• Lost It All Jul 5, 2011 Humility and utter self-despair, with the resignation to God’s mighty working in simple faith, is the infallible way to be delivered from self, and have the Spirit of Love born in the heart.— Andrew Murray For…
• Do We Really Care? May 27, 2011 To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant’s conduct must be ‘so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant…

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