For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. –Ephesians 6:12 If only there were ...
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Christians as Dual Citizens, part 1
Then Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” And they were amazed at him. –Mark 12:17 Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.—Matthew 6:10 ...
Read More »Where Can You Be Found
“’Why were you searching for me,’ he asked. ‘Did you not know I would be in my Father’s house?’” — Luke 2:49 Most parents know that heart-wrenching terror of turning around and not immediately seeing your child. You know ...
Read More »The Beauty Of Serving
“You know God put you on Earth to serve mankind and you serve God best by serving others well” — Earl Nightingale After living the life of a convent teacher, a simple woman heeded what she felt was a ...
Read More »Searching For The Source
“Love water, love it will all your being, but only from the well or the picnic spring. Tasteless but grateful in summer, embracing the hollow of any vessel. But never follow water to the river or sea.” — Revolutionary Sonnets ...
Read More »Keeping Promises
“So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.” — Genesis 12:4 Can you fathom holding onto a promise for twenty-four years? Surely, ...
Read More »Neighbor-Love, part 5: Accountability and Humility
We need someone who encourages us when we are tempted to give up, to forget it all, to just walk away in despair. We need someone to discourage us when we move too rashly in unclear directions or hurry proudly ...
Read More »Life Together, part 3: Confessing
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. —James 5:16 Some parts of the Bible are hard for me to understand. This passage is not. The instruction is clear, the ...
Read More »Neighbor-Love, part 2: Learning to Receive
…Our humility shows itself first in the readiness to receive service from our fellow men, and supremely from God…It is well for us to stand on our own feet; to go through life in parasitic dependence on others, contributing nothing, ...
Read More »Neighbor-Love, part 1
Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as ...
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