WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?
Even when the Lord Jesus knew his destiny and prophesied his future, he nevertheless certainly knew and expressed the difficulty of being forsaken. He had […]
Journals
TRYING FOR SILENCE
Silence is paying attention to God. This can be a tough assignment if silence threatens us and if God threatens us. Even while I write […]
CHRIST’S BODY
Symeon the New Theologian, (949-1022), monk and mystic wrote, “We awaken in Christ’s bodyas Christ awakens our bodies,and my poor hand is Christ, He entersmy […]
DOING STUFF
I find it easy to try and do something rather than be something…like receiving what the Father wants to give me. If I can be […]
KINGDOM ON EARTH
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1844-1917) wrote, “Whoever expects Christ will experience the Savior, whether he lives or dies. There is thus no such thing as death […]
A CLEAR VIEW
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) wrote, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by […]
DO YOU NOT KNOW?
The apostle Paul seems to have hit on a theme phrase in his first letter to the Corinthians: Do you not know? Do you not know that you are a temple […]
MEDIATOR OF A NEW COVENANT
There are two words for ‘temple’ or sanctuary in the New Testament. One refers to a sacred place, a temple, or a whole structure. The […]
THE HOLY OF HOLIES
In the Book of Exodus we read about the instructions for the Tabernacle given to Moses. There were two main parts on the inside of […]
GRACE EXCUSES
If I want to intentionally sin I may also be intentionally depending on grace to eradicate the penalty of sin. For sins like lying or […]