who wants to go on making mud pies in a slumbecause he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. —C. S. Lewis,The Weight of Glory Little do many people understand: This deep sea of joy is made available to us as weobeyGod–another reality that makes som...
and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
Everyone needs friends.There is an old saying,"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."But how do you find real friendship and keep it?The American writer Sally Seamans tells young students some smart ways to find friends.Sally says finding friendship is just like planting a tree.You...
Let the variety of birds remind you that I value uniqueness. Celebrate who I’ve made you to be: the colors of your personality, the pattern of your life, the song of gifts and talents I’ve given you to share with the world, the habits of goodness I’ve formed in you to impact o...
Today’s Meditation:God did not promise that those who follow Him will have an easy life or successful life. On contrary, He wants us to serve Him with labour. He wants us to labour not just because the world needs Him, but we the saved also need Him. He is not just as mentioned ...
I do believe that seeing a counselor first would be wise to help you sort out the anxieties that you are feeling. The last thing you want to do is get involved in a relationship when you feel forced to. I don’t believe God would do that to you. However, He probably wants to help...
Everyone always focused on Charlie, the cult leader, the “Helter Skelter” Svengali, the failed musician who had to settle for becoming one of history’s most famous modern representations of human evil. People wrote about him, or they wrote about “the family” as a single unit — the sp...
into truth. That is not to say we are all going to think and feel the same way on everything. God deals with us personally and in different ways. The problem is when we are shown something or led in a particular way, we expect everyone to see it our way and believe the same ...
Belief in the basic goodness of everyone (despite Paul’s even our best like dirty rags) Pastoral implications: What should we do? Pastoral implications 1: Open eyes Church easy pickings Adults: clever, deceptive, duplicit, psychop Children: model, ignorance, curiosity, empathy ...
God’s surprises prove his creative capability to perform wonders that cannot be fathomed, and miracles that cannot be counted! An Unlikely Juxtaposition The shepherds visited the True Shepherd; the kings from the East visited the King of the universe. And that Shepherd-King (such a mind-...