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The Crisis Questions of Our Faith Jan 9, 2023 Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come to that point many times externally, but it…
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…
Win First Then Fight Jun 29, 2020 先胜后战 (Xiān shèng hòu zhàn)~ 孫子 Sun Tzu Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to…
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…
The Future: Calling The Ball Feb 23, 2018 One person walking with God is in the majority. ~Graham Cooke For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of…
Instant Sense of Guidance Dec 10, 2017 Where are the young men and women of this generation who will hold their lives cheap, and be faithful even unto death, who will lose their lives for Christ’s, flinging them away for love of him?…
Obedience in The Dark of Night Dec 5, 2017 Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness. ~St. John…
Direction Indicator: Feeling Resistance when Doing Good Aug 23, 2017 You have established a new relationship with the powers of darkness. Whatever you were before you were a Christian… you are now a sworn foe of the legions of hell. Have no delusions about their reality…
The Violent Obedience of Freedom Aug 4, 2017 The purpose of the cross is to completely decimate your loyalty to the most seductive/powerful of all idols—the idol of self. ~David Tripp But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of…
Trust In Sickness And in Health May 1, 2017 The cross is “I” crossed out…. The cross is always ready, everywhere in wait for you. You cannot escape it wherever you run, for wherever you go, you carry yourself with you and will always find…
Our Fear of His Healing Mar 28, 2017 It would be hard to believe God too much: it is dreadfully common to believe him too little. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to…
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…
Our Own Macedonian Call Nov 17, 2016 I have often, myself, sat in darkness, and cried aloud for the Holy Spirit to deliver me from the fantasies that gather round a parched soul like flies round a rotting carcass in the desert. Likewise,…
Three Words to Live by: “I Got You” Dec 10, 2015 Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.~Brennan Manning This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.…
100 Days in The Middle Kingdom of China Nov 29, 2015 In seeking to preserve your own life you will lose it. If you are prepared to lose your life for God’s sake, you will find it… I believe that such a moment comes in the life…
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,…
A Man Under Authority Sep 14, 2015 Our world is fast becoming a madhouse, and the inmates are trying to run the asylum. It is a strange time when the patients are writing the prescriptions, the students are threatening to run the schools,…
Pervasive Obedience Aug 28, 2015 Consecration is the narrow, lonely way to overflowing love. We are not called upon to live long on this planet, but we are called upon to be holy at any and every cost. If obedience costs…
Sitting on Go – Again Aug 8, 2015 The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.~ T. S. Eliot…
Semper Victoria May 8, 2015 Victory in service is to be expected from supernaturally born men who are supernaturally delivered, supernaturally sustained, and supernaturally directed. We are thus supernaturally created for a supernatural work which is supernaturally prepared and is to…
Real Food: Doing The Father’s Will Apr 1, 2015 I end with a blessing from Larry Hine, Brennan Manning’s spiritual director, who delivered this benediction at Manning’s ordination service: May all of your expectations be frustrated, May all of your plans be thwarted, May all…
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…
The Living Work of Rest Jun 8, 2014 The people who are always desperately active are a nuisance; it is through the saints who are one with him that God is doing things all the time. The broken and the jaded and the twisted…
The Resting of Obedience Jun 8, 2014 How shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest; there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half that Is withheld.…
Just Like Jesus Jan 28, 2014 Look in, and see Christ’s chosen saint In triumph wear his Christlike chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; His life is Christ, his death is gain.~John Keble (1792-1866)My God, My God, why have…
Walking The Path Jun 10, 2013 Dark as my path may seem to others, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid toward…
A Night in The Light – A True Story Apr 2, 2013 Dark as my path may seem to others, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid toward…
Fathering Beyond Hate Dec 26, 2012 The sin that shocks God is the thing which is highly esteemed among men—self-realization, pride, my right to myself.~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will…
The Myth of Balance Mar 10, 2012 I was going to start with some section on old paradigms – you know – like: kinking the garden hose will break the pipes in the walls…. Ok. I’ll just say it: The Normal Christian Life…
Disorientation Nov 2, 2011 Our adversary is a master strategist, forever fogging up our minds with smokescreens. ~Charles R. Swindoll (1934- ) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every…
Stark Raving Obedience Sep 24, 2011 “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” — Jim Elliot “After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.”…
Waiting to Fly Sep 2, 2011 They that wait upon the Lord renew their strength. They that wait upon men dissipate their energies. — Leonard Ravenhill (1867-1942) Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the…
Remix: The Myth of Balance (Rest) Jun 15, 2011 “This is true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and…
How did Jesus Ever Make It Through Gethsemane?… Apr 22, 2011 We are familiar with the story. Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane, praying. He knows He is about to go through the most horrible event in all of known history. What happens in Gethsemane simply…