Wise Words for Today

Jesus is like air to the lungs and water to a desert dweller. He is not a religious artifact. He’s not dead. He is alive. He is engaged and engaging. He is here now, changing lives all over this world this very moment. When He walked on earth He changed everything for everyday, for all [...]

The ABC’s of My Position (in Christ)

Mick Turner
I discovered this wonderful list, describing some of the major aspects of our new identity in Christ, in the book, The Fine Line: Re-envisioning the Gap Between Christ and Culture, by Kary Oberbrunner. It is in alphabetical order:
 Accepted in the beloved
Bought with a price
Crucified with Christ
Dwelt by the Holy Spirit
Enslaved to God
Freed from slavery [...]

A Highly Recommended Blog: Stirring the Deep

From time to time I run across a blog/website that is truly exceptional. I was up at 3 am this morning, couldn’t sleep, and the Spirit took me to an article on this blog about the importance of aligning our thoughts with God’s word. It was a highly insightful post about the power of our [...]

Wise Words for Today

…I don’t understand how anyone can look ingenuously at the contents of the scripture and say that Jesus intends anything else for us but obedience. So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching. If we don’t start there, we may as well forget about any distinctively [...]

Wise Words for Today

*** I wanted to share with you this great prayer by M. Robert Mulholland…
Loving God, something deep within me hungers for wholeness. Voiceless stirrings in the depths of my being surprise me at unexpected moments with their intimation of a life in you, which would transfigure me and transform my life in this world. These [...]

Wise Words for Today

“When you realize God designed your quality of life to be directly connected to your predominate thoughts, you will become more careful about what you think. It’s amazing to discover that you are the one drawing into your life the people, the jobs, your circumstances, your health, your wealth, the debt, the joy – everything. [...]

An Epiphany of Sorts

This morning I experienced one of those moments in my prayer time that was, for me, an epiphany of sorts. I just wanted to share with you briefly what this experienced entailed.
After my prayers, I spent about ten minutes or so reading scripture, as well as some of the inspirational quotations I keep in a [...]

Norman Vincent Peale on Enthusiasm

As some of you may be aware, I have been dealing with some fairly significant health problems over the past few months, mostly stemming from chronic heart disease which I have battled, in one way or another, for the past 15 years or so.
As a person who always tries to squeeze something positive and productive [...]

Wise Words for Today

The single keystone of life with God is trust. It is the converted heart’s courage and the new man’s ambition. It dreams new dreams, imagines outrageous possibilities, and dares to be the change God wants in the world….Trust accepts the sole sufficiency of Jesus as the full, finished, and final proof of God’s love for [...]

Wise Words for Today

The gospel of the kingdom is an invitation to a different reality, a different way of living. The kingdom is a new way of relating as people. Where ordinary human life is based on competitiveness and defensiveness, domination and subjugation, treachery and violence, the kingdom is based on the self-giving love of God. The kingdom [...]