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Our sermon this week focused upon our victory in Christ from Romans chapter 8: Once your horizons have been expanded, you’re not content to return to the old ways. Your birthright as a child of God is a life of… Continue Reading →
One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. When your eyes have seen a new horizon, it can be difficult to return to the old routine. Jesus came to expand our… Continue Reading →
We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self. Peter Kreeft We have a tendency… Continue Reading →
A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross. H. Richard Niebuhr God has made man in His image and unfortunately men have been returning the favor… Continue Reading →
I do not think anything worth having in the spiritual world is easily attained, there is no short-cut to holiness. Amy Carmichael We live in a society that looks for the quick fix or the easy hack. Amy Carmichael is… Continue Reading →
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it…. Continue Reading →
To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. Os Guinness What would you say is the health and strength of the ideals of America? For many years it appeared that America had a common… Continue Reading →
If your work is your self, when you cease to work, you cease to exist. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang I just finished Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. The author warns us that… Continue Reading →
Time in nature is transformational. It can be healing. It can reveal who we are. It can show us who we’re capable of becoming. It can foster community with one another. It can make us appreciate the comforts of home…. Continue Reading →
Don’t be a prisoner of your past – become the architect of your future. All of us have memories of our past that we wish were not there. You can’t move forward when you’re fixated on the rear view mirror…. Continue Reading →
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca Worry may be described as undue concern about a situation without considering God. Mark Twain observed, “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” It… Continue Reading →
Happy Passover!… Happy Palm Sunday!… Solemn observance of Good Friday… Happy Resurrection Sunday! Please meditate on the connection between all of these: First– Jesus comes into Jerusalem, the national capital, as the humble King He is, to the cries of… Continue Reading →
God has to hide from us what He does, until, by personal character, we get to the place where He can reveal it. Oswald Chambers What is God revealing to you? If God is silent could it be that my… Continue Reading →
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov Knowledge is important, but knowing what to do with our knowledge requires wisdom. It’s been said that wisdom is the quality… Continue Reading →
???? What do I mean here? I recently read of an experiment in which someone put fleas in a jar with a lid on it… At first, they desperately flew up against the lid in an attempt to escape… But… Continue Reading →
