The Gospel pursues beauty, wisdom, growth, and the best in life knowing that it is accepted. Legalism pursues only those measures seen as obtainable and is ruled by fear, anxiety…
Adaptation of an earlier poem There she stood clothed, yet nakedBefore Him who looked into herheart.Fire and judgment stirred relentlesslyAnd searched . . . She looked into His eyes and…
Once you make holiness a list of rules, you lose holiness. Because holiness is not a list. Holiness is an adventure and a passion for joy. It is a matter…
“. . . The temptation to want to have signs and wanders, the temptation to want to have gifts of healings are gifts of miracles because they sound neat because…
Created in the image of God . . . “It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.” — Galatians 3:1 God has called us to…
I heard the thunder of the gates as they closed and The heaviness of the chains as they were wrapped around and locked. All light fled, and no whispers of…
Some people will neglect doing good, because what prompted that good was a false motive. I have learned to thank God for using the false motive to remind me to…
Have you ever wanted to be punished when you’ve done something wrong? Let’s say you’ve sinned against God, and then go to prayer and confess, and then there is nothing,…
Legalism demands perfection from others. The Gospel enjoys calling others to delight with them in the holy that we experience in our journey toward God.
In Acts 2, as Peter stood there preaching the first sermon of the church, all present were aware that it had been a little over 40 days since a deep…
