The Relevant Prophet
“Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
Cynicism and negativity are characteristics of a lazy man’s faith. They fall from the weight of the natural gravity of our flesh. Cheerfulness with a bright outlook requires sustained effort to fight through gravity, to fly in the realms of freedom in open heavens.
Is one a prophet or sage who merely sees and spouts the obvious? . . .
A New Thing
I don't become a new thing because of my past, I become a new thing because of Your presence.
It is not because of the experiences and hardships or positive influences of my past that I become a new creation in Christ. I become a new creature because of Your breath blew upon the seed of the endless life of Christ Jesus implanted . . .
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Desperation Fuels Ferocious Faith
Thoughts on John 4:46-54
Thoughts on John 4:46-54
Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.
. . .Irresistible Obedience
Nature & Mechanics of Obedience
In all nature action precedes outcome.
- Hunger makes a demand/command.
- Action: planting, harvesting, or killing, cooking
- Eating: hunger satisfied
Desire, hunger, lack, and attraction: each of these ‘drives’ makes a demand on us. The desire alone does not satisfy itself. It . . .
Outcomes and Intentions
What's in a Name?
Outcomes do not define, explain or confirm original intentions. God, who is the immutable will to all goodness, made men for glory, delight, productivity, and exultation. In the same way a child displays the physical characteristics and the spirit and intent of his parents’ heart, so every person is born to uniquely express the image of God . . .
The Everlasting Spring
The Everlasting Spring
Why do we rush the coming of the Spring?
Do we so soon forget that Winter's deaths must be?
Though bleak and grey we wait and sing
In radiant faith to Thee.
But we, in this transient world, born and bred
Seek meaning on expeditious paths
First trod by this world's wise, now . . .
