Thursday, May 04, 2023

Forgiveness

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The beloved disciple sends a message both to the sinner covered with shame and to the local church tentative and slow to forgive for fear of...

Church leadership

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Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund-raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding ...

The Lord will provide

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744 13th P. M. 10 10, 11 11. The Lord will provide. THOUGH troubles assail, and dangers affright;,    Though friends should all fall, and...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Future hope? Or present reality?

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On the other hand, if the central saving act of Christian faith is relegated to the future with the fervent hope that Christ’s resurrection ...

Idolatry comes in various forms

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The anything-goes morality of the religious and political Left is matched by the sanctimonious moralism of the religious and political Right...

Awake!

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729 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. Sober viigilance. THIS slumber from my spirit shake.    Warn’d by the Spirit’s inward call    Let me to righteo...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Who am I, really?

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I still cling to the illusion that I must be morally impeccable, other people must be sinless, and the one I love must be without human wea...

Growth

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Experientially the inner healing of the heart is seldom a sudden catharsis or an instant liberation from bitterness, anger, resentment, and ...

The well-fought day

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728 S. M. The well-fought day. PRAY, without ceasing, pray,    (Your Captain gives the word ;) —    His summons cheerfully obey,    And c...
Monday, May 01, 2023

But do you really believe it?

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How would you respond if I asked you this question: “Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has...

It's all dust

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For too long and too often along my journey, I have sought shelter in hand-clapping liturgies and cerebral Scripture studies. I have receive...

Are we nuts?

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This excerpt from a devotional on 1 Corinthians caught my eye today: Following a suffering, crucified God seems unwise. Further, to thos...

Soldiers of Christ, arise!

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725 S. M. The whole armour of God. SOLDIERS of Christ, arise,    And put your armour on,    Strong in the strength which God supplies    ...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The armor

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721 L. M. The panoply of truth. BEHOLD the Christian Warrior stand    In all the armour of his God;    The Spirit’s sword is in his hand...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Lift up your hearts!

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716 C. M. Rejoicing in hope. LIFT up your hearts to things above,    Ye followers of the Lamb,    And join with us to praise his love,  ...
Friday, April 28, 2023

But what's the reason?

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The Stoics assume our task is to reduce our estrangement from our nature, but they give no reason for this estrangement as a feature of huma...

One in Christ

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715 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. One in Christ Jesus and with each other. FATHER, at thy footstool see    Those who now are one in thee:    Dra...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

The hermeneutics of disagreement

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Disagreement, says Stout, is limited precisely to the extent that we recognize it as disagreement at all. Absent a larger background of agre...

One sentence sums it up

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Jesus is Lord above all lords is the shape of Christian political life.— One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions ...

Stamp thine image on our heart

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714 6th P. M. 6 lines 7s. Hand in hand to heaven. CENTRE of our hopes thou art;    End of our enlarged desires:    Stamp thine image on o...