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• Duo Obituaries Oct 10, 2023 If we have never been hurt by a statement of Jesus, it is questionable whether we have ever really heard him speak. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin…
• To Us Fathers Who Failed Jul 10, 2022 I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope. ~Elyse M. Fitzpatrick And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even He Who…
• Let It Burn… Our Warfare Is Ended Mar 23, 2022 Control is an illusion, but isolation is not.
• De Civitate Dei – The City of God vs. The City of Self Aug 31, 2021 He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.― Augustine of Hippo, City of God For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of…
• Leaving The Yoke of Bondage Jul 29, 2021 Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We…
• You Gotta Want It! May 18, 2021 There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus noticed him lying there , knowing that he had been in that condition a long time (38 years), He said to…
• 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…
• What Price Freedom? Would We Pay it? Mar 15, 2021 Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement; he is a rebel who must lay down his arms…. This process of surrender—this movement full speed astern—is what Christians call repentance. Now repentance is…
• 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…
• Moonrise: The End of Our Dominion Jul 20, 2020 I am a bow on Your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break. ~Nikos Kazantzakis Listen to me, O…
• First Things First: Love G_d, Love People, And Fear Not Jul 2, 2020 God gives His communion to all who love Him. Communion with God is life and light and sweetness with all the good things that He has. But those who of their own will forsake Him, He…
• 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…
• 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…
• Cutting Away Our Self-Regard Feb 28, 2019 “Then 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…
• 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…
• Death’s Work in Our Lives Nov 19, 2018 Death is only painful to him who resists it. The imagination exaggerates its terrors. The spirit argues endlessly to show the propriety of the life of self. Self-love fights against death, like a sick man in…
• Out of The Black Hole of Self-Regard Oct 4, 2018 Hans Urs von Balthasar said it best: we do not live in an ego-drama. We live in a Theo-drama. Life does not work any other way.
• My Testimony: Apologetics As A New Creation Oct 2, 2018 May you be encouraged. Christ has set me free to Love and serve.
• 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?
• Living Like Frank A. (Francis of Assisi) Sep 13, 2018 See, Christianity is not a philosophy primarily. Christianity is a relationship to this Jesus. Which is why the renewal of the Church, though it has an institutional dimension; though it involves practical changes and all of…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Fear And Contempt: The Two Main Blocks to Relationship Apr 30, 2018 Contempt is fueled by long-festering negative thoughts about another person. When negative beliefs invade a relationship, eventually you stop seeing the positive. At that point, a thing called “confirmation bias” sets in. Confirmation bias is a…
• Forgiveness: Always Get Over The Last Hurdle Apr 21, 2018 While we may not want to hear this, many of our spiritual conflicts simply are not going to cease until the character of the Lord Jesus is formed in our hearts. The Father’s goal in delivering…
• Flux: Creating The Perfect Environment for Positive Change Mar 24, 2018 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…
• Crashing Through to Our New Mind in Christ Mar 13, 2018 On faith … Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from…
• Treasure in The Junk of Our Lives Feb 21, 2018 When I saw my name on Nancy’s reply and realized I hadn’t received it, I found it in my Junk file. There is a message from God here – you have to continually search your junk…
• Dying Again for The 71st Time Feb 14, 2018 If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would…
• Little Death Bringing Bigger Lives Dec 14, 2017 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…
• Judgement Day Is Real: And It Is A Harder Day Than We Think Nov 13, 2017 Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven-through a purification…
• Jesus: Becoming What We Consume Oct 15, 2017 If we receive the Eucharist worthily, we become what we receive. ~ St. Augustine of Hippo Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup…
• Living in Our Caricature World Oct 8, 2017 The proud sin greatly who, after studying secular literature and having turned to the Holy Scriptures, consider all that they say to be the Law of God, and do not endeavour to come to know the…
• Believe, Or Don’t. There Is No Middle Ground Sep 25, 2017 The practical thing to do since God is our Fortress and our High Tower is to surrender by faith to put ourselves and all our interests into this divine dwelling place. Then we must dismiss all…
• Living A Grown Up Love Aug 27, 2017 Perfect love is a kind of self-dereliction, a wandering out of ourselves; it is a kind of voluntary death, wherein the lover dies to himself, and all his own interest, not thinking of them, nor caring…
• Battle-Softened Warrior Aug 18, 2017 …I thank Thee that Thou art risen from the dead, that at this very moment Thou dost indwell me in the person and power of Thy divine Spirit; that Thou hast never expected of me anything…
• Got to Get Away from The Perspective of Disbelief Aug 3, 2017 If at any time you feel disposed again to say, “It is enough,” and that you can bear of the burden of life no longer, do as Elijah did, flee into the silence of solitude, and…
• Into The Memory Abyss: Finding Healing Jul 13, 2017 There is no escaping the cross. You will feel either pain in your body or tribulation in your spirit. Sometimes you will feel deserted by God. Sometimes your neighbor will trouble you. Quite frankly, you will…
• Coming Home to An Elephant Graveyard Jul 5, 2017 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…
• Death and Life in Our Tongue Jun 13, 2017 Jesus… says it’s murder when we destroy people with our words. It’s murder when we put people down and treat them as insignificant. ~Rebecca Manley Pippert For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does…
• Requiem for A Reputation May 21, 2017 If we are wise, we will do what Jesus said: endure the cross and despise its shame for the joy that is set before us. To do this is to submit the whole pattern of our…
• Missions: Why Do It? What About My Own Life? May 7, 2017 Whoever does not want to know the will of God is mentally walking a path next to a cliff, and easily falls with any wind. If he is praised, he is proud. If he is rebuked…
• Our Fear of Believing The Solution: The Kingdom May 4, 2017 As his child, you are entitled to his kingdom, the warmth, the peace, and the power of his presence, the wisdom, the insight, and the guidance of his Spirit, the goodness, the joy, and every supreme…
• 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…
• Longing for A Certain Death Apr 21, 2017 There is an intimate bond between the sufferings of Christ and the conflict and suffering in each Christian life. The daily dying of the Christian is a prolongation of Christ’s own death. Paul writes in Romans…
• 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…
• The Dying Seed of A Fruitful Life Mar 30, 2017 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…
• Living The Life of The Dead Mar 12, 2017 There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‘wilderness’ part of you – your soul – is your…
• 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…
• Awash in The Grace of God Feb 24, 2017 When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. ~ Unknown Now therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into…
• We Cannot Keep What We Do Not Give Away Feb 16, 2017 The seed dies into a new life and so does man. ~George Macdonald (1824-1905) “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on…
• 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,…
• Awakening to Our True Hunger Dec 29, 2016 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…
• The Tearing Away of The Old Man Dec 18, 2016 “You will have to let me undress you,” says Aslan the Lion… So desperate was Eustace, even his fear of Aslan’s claws was not enough to stop him from laying down flat on his back. Laying…
• Only If You Want It Forever Nov 7, 2016 Our inhuman enemy inspires the thought that God loves mankind, and that He quickly forgives this sin. But when we observe the guile of demons, then we see that after the commission of the sin, they…
• Keeping Our Shadows Behind Us Oct 31, 2016 A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to…
• Over The Bridge And into The Fear of The Lord Oct 25, 2016 When we come into this sweet relationship, we are beginning to learn astonished reverence, breathless adoration, awesome fascination, lofty admiration of the attributes of God and something of the breathless silence that we know when God…
• The Core of The Three Lusts Oct 6, 2016 God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.~Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But…
• The Ministry of Being Misunderstood Sep 18, 2016 I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. ~ Jesus, King of the Universe 01:…
• Bulletproof Dead Sep 6, 2016 The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.~ Watchman Nee For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly…
• Still, Like Water Sep 4, 2016 It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.~ Terence James Stannus Gray I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you…
• The Violence of Regeneration: Being Born Again Jul 31, 2016 Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. ~ Brennan Manning See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be…
• Indestructible Love Jul 27, 2016 When a Christian or group of Christians dies because they trust that Christ is the faithful revelation of God and of a new humanity, their death is not like Obi-Wan Kenobi’s last words to Darth Vader:…
• You Will Be Ravaged if You Love Jul 25, 2016 I will never forget the day I realized that both God and the devil wanted me to die but for different reasons. Satan wanted to destroy me through slander while God wanted to use these same…
• 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…
• Maturity’s Pathway Jul 19, 2016 If you are born of God; then in you God will green; His godhead is your sap; your beauty is in him. ~Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but…
• The Two Sides of Our Devastation Mar 30, 2016 The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt. The…
• Good Friday Meditation: Overcoming The Cycle of Sin’s Poverty Mar 25, 2016 Living as the beloved- no more reduced lifestyle, walk with Him, into this place of favor, live in a place of unbroken delight, where the poverty of sin cannot touch us, where His newness of life…
• The End of Heaviness Mar 9, 2016 For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When…
• 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…
• Dead Man Loving Feb 16, 2016 We become what we love. When we are fixed and focused on who God is in His essential nature then the presence of His agape love in us sets us free to love in the same…
• Life Breaks Through: Joy Will Find A Way Feb 15, 2016 These things are beautiful beyond belief;The pleasant weakness that comes after pain,The radiant greenness that comes after rain,The deepened faith that follows after grief,And the awakening to love again.~William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Preserve me, O God, for…
• 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.…
• Moving Off-Center That We Might Find Ourselves Dec 8, 2015 Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus Christ himself can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false…
• You Are Already Dead, So You Are Free Nov 1, 2015 To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is the quiet mind? A quiet mind is one that nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into…
• Living Beyond Our Agendas Oct 30, 2015 Jesus Christ set a window in the tiny dark dungeon of the ego in which we all languish, letting in a light, providing a vista, and offering a way of release from the servitude of the…
• Struggling up Maslow’s Hierarchy Oct 29, 2015 The prosperity gospel is “right.” But, it is totally wrong in the “riches” this message proposes we receive. One moment of His Presence is beyond the value of all the material goods i have ever received.…
• Living in The Truth Oct 25, 2015 What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.~ Abraham MaslowHe flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices, and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.~Anatole France (1844-1924)This is…
• Power’s Corruption Vs. The Authority in Integrity Sep 15, 2015 Integrity is only found at the moment where the bedrock of self has been shattered, and a new depth of being discovered.~ Makala Barnabas Doulos I am the True Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.…
• Like A Bullet Into Molasses Sep 13, 2015 A re-post as this writer enters his third culture in just over three years.The immutability of God appears in its most perfect beauty when viewed against the mutability of men. In God no change is possible;…
• The Emissary’s Authority Sep 11, 2015 God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it… How many people have you made homesick for God?~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) Now the eleven disciples went…
• Re-Entry Sep 7, 2015 A re-post as this writer goes into his third cultural transition in a little over three years… We contradict the Lord to his face when we say: It is hard, it is difficult; we cannot, we…
• 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…
• De-Invictus: Why The Flesh Is So Big Aug 2, 2015 Through his death on the cross Jesus Christ not only readjusts a man in conscience and heart to God, he does something grander, he imparts to him the power to do all God wants, he presences…
• 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…
• Hosea’s Lesson Mar 29, 2015 To be willing to accept crucifixion with Christ; to leave all yourself, your plans and your longings, your abilities and your possessions, all of them at the cross so that you only trust and love and…
• 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…
• Warrior Living Feb 23, 2015 The certainty that he who went through death, who restored the connection between nature and the spiritual world, changes death to win a triumph, a triumph that is; awaiting us like the warrior who is going…
• Germination Feb 15, 2015 We are not called to be successful in accordance with ordinary standards, but in accordance with a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying, becoming in that way what it never could be if…
• A Beautiful Death… Consecration Feb 12, 2015 Death is only painful to him who resists it. The imagination exaggerates its terrors. The spirit argues endlessly to show the propriety of the life of self. Self-love fights against death, like a sick man in…
• 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…
• Fresh Wind for A Tired Soul Jan 20, 2015 O sweetness of my heart! O life of my soul, joyous resting place of my spirit! O bright and beautiful day of eternity, serene light deep within me! Flowering paradise of my heart! When shall I…
• Loving in Interruption. Jan 13, 2015 The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s…
• Fighting with Dull Weaponry Nov 17, 2014 He who will fight the devil with his own weapons must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch.~Robert South (1634-1716) But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live…
• Phantom Pain Oct 21, 2014 What are you afraid of? Let God act. Abandon yourself to Him. You will suffer, but you will suffer with love, peace and consolation. You will fight, but you can carry off the victory, and God…
• Dawn of The Dead – Four Years of Living The Crucified Life Oct 19, 2014 We have one function in life: to be the manifestors of His life to the world. Only when we are living His life are we truly living our own! This is the reason for our creation.~Malcolm…
• 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…
• Don’t Listen to Dead Men’s Tales Oct 9, 2014 The Holy Ghost destroys my personal private life and turns it into a thoroughfare for God.~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)“This is like the days of Noah to Me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no…
• 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…
• Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread Sep 4, 2014 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.~Alexander Pope (1688-1744)And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every…
• 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 Violence of Grace Jul 11, 2014 The Holy Spirit is taking the righteousness of Jesus and applying it to you every single opportunity He can. God isn’t dealing with your sin; He’s dealt with it. He’s dealing with your righteousness.~ Graham CookeFor…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Our Head: The Most Dangerous of Neighborhoods Jun 9, 2014 Stay out of your own head. It is a very dangerous neighborhood. Do not go in there alone. Especially at night.~ Jim FreedBear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone…
• Blameless May 11, 2014 Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to His beloved is that of overcoming self.~St. Francis of Assisi I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God…
• No One to Blame – No Need Either May 6, 2014 Self-pity… cuddle and nurse it as an infant and you’ll have on your hands in a brief period of time a beast, a monster, a raging, coarse brute that will spread the poison of bitterness and…
• Defining Wealth in A Moment Feb 23, 2014 God will do whatever it takes to bring us into a right relationship with Himself. And when we come to the end of our circumstances – even ourselves – we realize that Jesus is all we…
• The Last Battle Jan 15, 2014 One of the greatest attractions of Christianity to me is its sheer absurdity. I love all those crazy sayings in the New Testament—which, incidentally, turn out to be literally true—about how fools and illiterates and children…
• The Sweetest Despair Jan 1, 2014 Don’t trust to hold God’s hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the holding, and you the trusting. ~Hammer William Webb-Peploe No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence…
• Now Dec 12, 2013 Let God do His work in you, and concentrate on living, without reservation, a selfless life in each and every moment as though each moment was the whole of eternity. ~François de Salignac de la Mothe…
• 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…
• 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…
• The Source And Stance of A Warrior’s Strength Jul 16, 2013 A warrior mindset is always focused on victory. It allows no possibility of defeat. It does not retreat. It stands under extreme pressure. It advances by God’s permission. The Lord has a language of intimidation; it’s…
• 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…
• Infinite Power in A Jar of Clay May 26, 2013 We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, see-able, with the mind, the hands, the ears, and eyes of the inner man.~A.W. Tozer (1897-1963)For this reason I bow my knees before the…
• Non-Linear Obedience May 9, 2013 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion.~C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though…
• 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…
• Impossible Truth Apr 21, 2013 He who made us also remade us.~Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in…
• 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…
• Torn to Be Made Whole Feb 14, 2013 It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.~ A.W. TozerTake a moment beloved… read it. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and…
• Projecting His Presence Jan 6, 2013 If you had any idea how much inward peace you would gain for yourself, and how much joy you would bring to others, by devoting yourself single-heartedly to God, you would certainly pay more attention to…
• The Irrelevance of Desire Dec 30, 2012 The Lord frustrates our plans, shatters our purposes, lets us see the wreck of all our hopes, and whispers to us, “It’s not your work I wanted, but you. You cannot be anything if you want…
• The Problem with Sailboats Dec 10, 2012 Love hates Self, or that which we call I, because it is a deadly thing and the two of them, Love and Self, cannot well stand together.~Jakob Böhme (1575-1624) that the God of our Lord Jesus…
• 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…
• 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…
• When Marriage Rubs Us Raw (An Anniversary Post) Sep 7, 2012 This material is from another blog… it is vital reading for all of us who are married, or intend to marry. Posted by Sara on Sunday, September 2, 2012 · This fishing rod was to be…
• God in You And Through You Aug 14, 2012 Abiding in Christ is daily experiencing the presence of Christ and allowing him to live his life in and through us Christ lives the Christian life in us because by our efforts alone, we cannot produce…
• Friction Aug 8, 2012 We have a bodily machine which we must regulate. God does not regulate it for us. Until we learn to bring the bodily machine into harmony with God’s will, there will be friction, and the friction…
• Much to Lose May 2, 2012 You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly above all that you could ever…
• 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.…
• He Is Everything Apr 23, 2012 Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.~Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated…
• δουλος Χριστου Ιησου (Bondservant of Christ) Jan 23, 2012 Whom do you think Paul was talking to when he said, “We are fools for the sake of Jesus Christ, and you are wise in Jesus Christ.” To you! Not to the people who do not…
• All Down… One Up Oct 22, 2011 It is impossible to carry whatever cross G_d desires for us if we still have anything in our hands. Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,…
• What’s In A Name? Oct 11, 2011 We have one function in life: to be the manifestors of His life to the world. Only when we are living His life are we truly living our own! This is the reason for our creation.…
• It Really Happened Sep 19, 2011 “When Christ bids us come and follow, He bids us come and die,” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Don’t listen to that old man’s voice in your head any more. He’s dead. Reckon it true believer. Reckoning does…
• It is for Freedom Jul 5, 2011 No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 b.c.–a.d. 65) For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a…

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