Rejection

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Avoiding Philanthropy: Go All The Way Instead Aug 14, 2018 A good way to avoid the snare of empty religious activity is to appear before God every once in a while with our Bibles open to the thirteenth chapter of first Corinthians. This passage, though rated…
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…
Sorrow Beyond Measure May 14, 2018 It was also like this for St. Jerome when he translated the Bible. Everyone was his master. He alone was entirely incompetent as people, who were not good enough to clean his boots, judged his works.…
Reframing Rejection: Digging A New Well Apr 19, 2018 There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. ~ Jessica Hatchigan And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him, and the man became rich,…
Devoured by Words And Bitterness Apr 16, 2018 No matter what bitterness has befallen you, no matter what unpleasantness has happened to you, say, “I shall endure this for Jesus Christ!” and it will be easier for you. For the name of Jesus Christ…
Remember The Fire Jan 31, 2018 “If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me—what will happen? There is…
A King Born to Be Rejected Jan 23, 2018 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…
Abandonment’s Cost Sep 28, 2016 That which one sacrifices is never lost.~German Proverb We’ll hardly get our feet out of time into eternity and gaze on eternity and that we bow our heads in shame and humiliation and say: My God,…
Tough Curves on The Path Nov 5, 2015 Before I am asked to show compassion toward my brothers and sisters in their suffering, He asks me to accept His compassion in my own life, to be transformed by it, to become caring and compassionate…