God initiated instead—loved me when unlovable, resistant to His overtures, suspicious of His every intent—and demonstrated His love.
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God is inviting Isaiah to argue a moot point. That’s dumb. Irrational.
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Knowing God is not about explaining His paradoxes. To know Him is to understand that He is paradoxical.
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Kevin demonstrated John to me. John demonstrated how to grasp the heart and heartbeat of Jesus.
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Maintain the two tracks in parallel, God sovereign and on His throne, man free to choose how he will live his life, and you have the potential for God and man in relationship.
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Hardship is relative. What’s important is whether or not your soul seizes the godliness offered during the demand on your soul’s health.
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It is no mistake that you live, and move, and have your being at this particular time in history.
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A rather violent storm was moving into our area, and as it arrived, it matched the hurricane in my head and heart. I remained on the patio as Dianne sheltered in our interior bath and the tornado sirens sounded.
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To know Jesus is to know grace and truth. To encounter grace and truth is to encounter Jesus—and since Jesus is God incarnate, to know Jesus or encounter grace and truth is to know and engage with God.
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Here’s to my friend Linda, now departed, and the wonderful family she leaves behind, a family that has made me as much a member as if I were born into it.
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While you are going to work, making nutritious meals for the family, nurturing your friendships, and managing your stressed budget, entire armies of people are dedicated to foisting upon you the pettiness listed above.
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I don’t care what political stripe you have down your back, this heavy-handed behavior should absolutely horrify you!
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Why this is occurring is, to quote our web guy, “Confusing.”
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Now, you can hang your head in defeat or you can recognize that throughout Scripture there are two themes running along the scarlet thread of Jesus Christ’s Incarnation (Christmas) into human life
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I’ve written in an attempt to locate and touch your heart—and by touching your heart, help you identify it in order to more confidently convert Christian theory into daily practice.
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Every human system tells us we are not meant to fly. We are meant to shuffle through the dust from which we were made.
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Brother Jesus: I’m grateful that nothing can alter who I am and whose I am. But from this place of confidence, please give me your wherewithal to live and keep my wits about me. Amen.
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Our representative men and women serve us by showing us our need for God’s leadership. This is one reason Scripture instructs us to pray for those in authority. When we do so, we are using a representative of us to pray for ourselves.
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What you are asking is that the One who is love, would be love, in you and through you. This is a prayer your heavenly Father answers affirmatively every time you pray it.
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Voting is about power. This is why secure voting is consistently compromised by fraud. As the man said, “I vote often and repeatedly.”
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