this is just a glimpse of God's grace at work in my life. i pray that it will be an encouragement to others on the journey.
I first read this quote of Spurgeon from the blog, Worship Matters. I thought that it was a great follow up to what I wrote in the previous post. “Brethren, there is an abiding fullness of truth in Christ; after you have heard it for fifty years, you see more of its fullness than you [...]
Are you reading this post because you happened to read the title and were interested in reading what I was going to say about rock music? Perhaps you got all bent out of shape because I would dare make a statement like this, this post is for you. Keep reading. You have fallen victim to [...]
I want to be careful as I write and with what I have already written. I do not want to give the impression that I care nothing for morality, or that I am encouraging immorality. However, I do want to make sure that it is clear that the motive of a Christian is to bring [...]
This is a quote that I heard some years ago, but it has stuck in my mind. Recently, through various interactions, I have been faced with the idea of morality versus Christ. Unfortunately, many people carelessly link morality with Christianity – to be moral is to be Christian. This is not to say that morality [...]
I have been meditating on the idea of faith recently. One particular story in the life of Christ has specifically caught my attention. The story is recorded in three of the gospels, but I have been reading from Mark’s account. Mark 5 tells the story of Christ’s interaction with a woman who has had a [...]
I had this thought the other day. I think that it may have come to me while I was finishing Surprised By Joy. I really cannot remember. I think that so many Christians, including myself, view Christianity as merely a competing world religion. When looking at the many other deities and religions of the world, [...]
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD [...]
I praise God for His faithfulness in my life. God’s faithfulness holds many attributes and has different appearances. But, because, God is God, His wisdom is perfect and His determined actions and His sovereign will is not only sufficient, but rather, supremely desirable. God is my loving Father, my best Friend, my Savior and Sustainer. [...]