My life’s work is supposed to be about people. Like a pastor, I enter people’s lives for a time noticing the contours of their soul, the formation or deformation of Christ within. Somewhere in there I ask questions and make observations eventually challenging and hopefully disrupting their beliefs about God and what He is about [...]
Christianity has to be disappointing, precisely because it is not a mechanism for accomplishing all our human ambitions and aspirations; it is a mechanism for subjecting all things to the will of God.
Simon Tugwell
“The believer can only perfect his faith on the ocean of nihilism, temptation and doubt; he has been assigned the ocean of uncertainty as the only possible site for his faith.”
Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity
The email arrived and I was immediately captivated by what I saw. Clicking on the link to view the video, my kids wanted to see what was so exciting. Within a minute both exclaimed, “I want one!” So did I.
We don’t see many commercials in our home because we don’t watch TV. As a rule, [...]
Latest news reports are that 12 different terrorist cell groups have been operating in many of our churches. They have been identified as: Bin Judgin, Bin Accusin, Bin Deprivin, Bin Bitin, Bin Devourin, Bin Consumin, Bin Provokin, Bin Envyin, Bin Lyin, Bin Gettin Even, Bin Against and Bin Complainin. Their leader, Lucifer Bin Deceivin, is training these groups [...]
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Still feeling raw from my prayer and musings from yesterday, I sat in my study this morning staring at Psalm 11, the next Psalm in my daily prayer cycle. David must have been having a similar struggle with real or perceived voices telling him to bail on a situation.
“I’ve already taken refuge in the Lord, [...]
I’ve almost always been this way. In fact, it has been suggested at times that I’m more of a rebel than anything. Be that as it may, status quo has never set well with me. Maybe I’m the one who likes change for the sake of change. I doubt it, though.
It’s the negative voices that [...]
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Be Thou my vision,
O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me
save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought
in the day and the night;
waking or sleeping,
Thy presence my light.
Myopia will be the death of me. I see only the circumstances before me and I’m tempted, sorely tempted, to believe they define reality. Something goes wrong [...]
“I am not what I meant to be, or what others think I am.”
Amy Charmichael
“I love this movement, the Advent Conspiracy movement. I’ve been trying to get my family to do this for the last two years, long before I heard about this. A few years ago, I told my family that i think we should refrain from buying gifts for each other on Christmas, and instead donate the [...]
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