My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Jesus prayed for another way
Letter to a friend discussing whether Jesus is the only way Thank you, for your response. I appreciate that you are open and willing to discuss things, even hard things…
Holding onto our world
It is in our nature to hold on to our world view or to be conformed to the world’s viewpoint. “Worldly wisdom” becomes our refuge for it doesn’t call us…
With us in reality
God has not called us to attain some super ethereal spiritual enlightenment. No new age mystical, science fiction, or gnostic experience will attain fullness of life or ultimate good. No,…
We cannot work righteousness
We cannot work righteousness in our lives. We cannot be holy through our own effort. Just as we were saved through grace by the power of the work of Christ,…
False Motives
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…
Preaching the Gospel through God’s love for us
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s…
The realist
Living by faith is not the life of a dreamer or an idealist. . . . It is the pursuit of the realist.
The power of the Word
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!”I thought about titling this: Why Calvinists evangelize? For the word of the Lord is upright,and all his work is…
Our body, the seed
Have you ever thought about the fact that if you had never seen a tree or a plant and saw a seed for the first time, in all your imagination…
Unshockable
One of the things my pastor says often is that he wants us to be an unshockable people, where we come together and love each other despite all the muck…
