How embarrassing it is that so many athletes takes more seriously their discipline for the sake of winning games than do I, a Christian, for the sake of winning souls. Certainly, it is the Holy Spirit who breathes life into those for whom Christ died and the Father selected, but it is no less the … Continue reading Be a disciplined disciple
Why You Should Forgive Your Ex
There is not an injustice that has been committed against you of which you, before God, are not just as if not more guilty of, and for which you (if in Christ) have not been graciously forgiven of. Wronged as you may have been, or are being, every lie said to you or of you … Continue reading Why You Should Forgive Your Ex
The Truth
sets free
Humility
The antidote to our pride is not shame, but humility. You are guilty of sin. This awareness is not given you so that you would live forever in the darkeness of your own inadequacy. Rather, your failed state serves to show you your need for Christ, who is sufficient, and who despite knowing no sin, … Continue reading Humility
I Need You, Father
I need more than your help, Father. I need You! I need you to make me into something that glorifies you. I need you to give me a daily desire for you, and then, like a cripple needs a caretaker, I need you to open my hands so that I can receive that gift. I … Continue reading I Need You, Father
Faithfully Focused
Give to me, Father, a heart that delights in the most beautiful things. Things of purity and of peace. Things that give you praise. Focus me on the works you would have me to fulfill. Complete your work in me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, that they might know your power to … Continue reading Faithfully Focused
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O Jesus, joy of loving hearts, thou fount of life, thou light of men, from fullest bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to thee again... Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
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Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is … Continue reading 51
Divorce
sucks
Kora
From Dad
God is still good 