Lent

Christianity isn’t Discipline – Christianity has it’s Disciplines

Sure doesn’t resonate with the soul, “He is an undisciplined Jesus follower.” God’s spectacular gift of grace is often lived out as the removal of all faithful discipline and effort on the part of grace’s recipient. Yes, God’s grace is an expensive, valuable, and luxurious gift given from His heart of love and mercy to …

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An Unknown Future

Praying and fasting with Jesus during Lent brings me face to face with a more accurate awareness of the condition of my inner person. I should always be mature and self aware yet I often lose insight and fail to understand my own heart. Christian self awareness is a bit of an oxymoron because the …

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Holy Harmony

What determines if the call at the home plate of my life is “safe” or “out?” The Holy Spirit, through the Apostle Paul, reveals the Christian’s umpire at home plate is Messiah’s peace. “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts…” Colossians 3:15 My heart’s umpire is the peace of Christ. Everything that passes …

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I See that I Am Blind

First I read the narratives of Jesus. Then they read me. There is a man who from his birth has been blind. They wanted reason.  Jesus provided solution. The blind guy sees and the seeing guys realize they are blind. John 9:1-12 reads me perfectly. I am blind. Blind to the blind guy.  Blind to …

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It is Not Dust to Die

“Remember, O man, that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.” This thought provoking sentence may seem a bit too macabre and dark for a follower of Jesus who claims of Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” However, hundreds of millions of Christians submit to this reflection each Ash …

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In My House?

Pin. Takedown. Tap out. Throw in the towel. No, I wasn’t in a fighting ring, I was in prayer at our Solemn Assembly and Day of Public Repentance. Several ideas in the Isaiah 58 reading JUMPED out and gave me the eight count. Isaiah asks “What is fasting that pleases the Lord?” Is it not …

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