mysticism

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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.…
Kingdom Mysterion Jan 2, 2019 When are we living in Christ? When we live according to His Gospel and His Church. For He Himself, and not only His Gospel, is in the Church with all of His perfections and virtues. The…
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…
Consecration: No Hedging Our Bets Feb 22, 2018 With complete consecration comes perfect peace. ~Watchman Nee So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along…
The Day Trust Dies Aug 31, 2017 Whoever sincerely pronounces this prayer leaves his own will and puts all things in the will of God. But the will inspired by the demons consists is self-justification and trust in ourselves, and then they easily…
Stop It! How? Now! Aug 16, 2017 You will lose your way the minute you decide to go your own way. When you seek God’s will alone, you find it everywhere, and you cannot go astray. Wanting what God wants always puts you…
Breakthroughs Into Eternal Spaces Jun 22, 2017 Just as people do not enter a war in order to enjoy war, but in order to be saved from war, so we do not enter this world in order to enjoy this world, but in…
Out of The Frying Pan And into The Fire Mar 27, 2015 When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of…
Mystic Visionism Nov 30, 2014 O my God, let me walk in the way of love which knoweth not how to seek self in anything whatsoever. O sight to be wished, desired and longed for, because once to have seen thee…
Pain: The Universal Solvent Dec 4, 2013 We are immortals dreaming the terrible dream of mere mortality. ~Peter Kreeft Any reader who has visited here more than a few times has probably picked up on the fact that this writer is an irredeemable…
Practical Mysticism Aug 28, 2012 Mystical means real. It is the intimate quality of the spiritual life.~Henri J. M. Nouwen And you were dead in the trespasses and sins… in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following…
Beautiful Shadow Sep 18, 2011 Formless and vague and fleeting as it is, the mystical experience is the bedrock of religious faith. In it the soul, acting as a unity with all its faculties, rises above itself and becomes spirit; it…