As we make our way toward the celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord, join me in prayer for the ministry we share in working together for racial reconciliation and for the healing of all involved in this matter.
What must I do to die a good death? You see, the great irony is that those of us who struggle with the fear of death also really struggle with the fear of living life abundantly.
Jesus coming among us is God’s love-errand, so that we wouldn’t “perish” or be “condemned” but have “eternal life.” That is life beyond biological definition now, and life so long and deep that years fail as a measurement tool.
For Jesus, the Temple was a “house of prayer,” for some others it was a “marketplace.” Jesus felt so strongly about that gap that he made a whip and drove animals and people out of the Temple.
Remember whether we’re talking work, marriage, learning or life with God, the familiar should come with a warning label! The familiar can become a rut and a rut can become a grave.
Remember whether we’re talking work, marriage, learning or life with God, the familiar should come with a warning label! The familiar can become a rut and a rut can become a grave.
God measures strength differently than the world. God takes pleasure in those who have such a heightened awareness of God that they respect, reverence, and worship God.
God measures strength differently than the world. God takes pleasure in those who have such a heightened awareness of God that they respect, reverence, and worship God.
Real knowledge, according to Paul, is that all human knowledge is partial and evolving while the very best of knowledge knows there’s “no failure in love.”
What we find most objectionable about God is that God doesn’t affirm our grudge making and maintenance, God sends us towards the ones we struggle to love.