“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”   Søren Kierkegaard

Read it more… No, seriously… READ IT!

Psalm 119:11 - “I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”

Read it more… No, seriously… READ IT!

Anchoring your faith… Talk about it with others

Abraham’s Call Extended to Us

1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

18 "and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

“The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less Rwandan. We are no longer Rwandans or Americans, neither Hutu nor Tutsi. If we are in Christ, we have become part of a new creation.”  Emmanuel Katongole Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

Hopeful

Devoted

Old & New, aka Ambassadors of Reconciliation

“If you live in a graveyard too long you stop crying when someone dies.”   Unknown

Guarding AGAINST a Heart for Yourself

Prodigal or Pharisee?

On Mission to UNDERSTAND the Father’s Love

“Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.”   Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Unwearied Persistence - Earthly Resource will NOT do

“Good morning everyone… I’m Peter… and I’m a sinner (saved by grace).”

The Wonder of Being ChildLIKE, NOT ChildISH

“G.K. Chesterton once said that it is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God, they believe in anything.”

Toward a right understanding of ourselves… “Our ranking system doesn’t matter.”

1 Samuel 16:7 - “But the LORD said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.’”

“The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost when thinking about it.”   Blaise Pascal, Pensees

Toward a right understanding of ourselves…

Toward a right understanding of God… Reflect, Consider, Wonder, Meditate on who HE IS

“In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church's integrity problem is in the misconception ‘that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior.’ He goes on to say, ‘It is revival without reformation, without repentance.’”

You’re NOT going to tell them?  Really?

God Engaged in the Ordinary Day

Unexpected Endings

“God's wonderful works which happen daily are lightly esteemed, not because they are of no import, but because they happen so constantly and without interruption. Man is used to the miracle that God rules the world and upholds all creation, and because things daily run their appointed course, it seems insignificant, and no man thinks it worth his while to meditate upon it and to regard it as God's wonderful work, and yet it is a greater wonder than that Christ fed five thousand men with five loaves and made wine from water.”   Martin Luther

“In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church's integrity problem is in the misconception ‘that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior’. He goes on to say, ‘It is revival without reformation, without repentance.’”

You’re NOT going to tell them?  Really?

God Engaged in the Ordinary Day

Unexpected Endings

Matthew 4:1-11

“Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison to eternal realities.”  

  Robert Murray McCheyne

You’re DOING IT

You HAVE ALL You Need

Living Clean

Intentional Loving… Quiet Living

The Bad News and the GOOD News

Saturation Shepherding

Love for ALL People

“Neil comments that, while love for each other was ‘no more than the Gentiles practiced,’ love for all men was more difficult and ‘could only come as a gift from God.’”

The Bad News and the GOOD News

Saturation Shepherding

Love for ALL People

Congruence—Who you are when ‘you don’t think’ anyone is looking…