“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” — Matthew 5:5 “But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.” — Psalms 37:11 We’re on a mini-series discussing the different metaphors for trust. When I was thinking about the theme of today’s message, I started out musing on the [...]
Last week I mentioned that we would be embarking on a mini-series regarding the issue of trust. Trust is a hard thing to come by. Faith is a word we have watered down in the English language — some people even define it as belief in the absence of any evidence. Quite frankly, that definition [...]
I’ve been wanting to do a mini-series on the subject of trust for some time now, so I’m excited to be embarking on this. I think sometimes that as “people of faith” and believers in unseen realms and powers, Christians are expected by society to have some kind of strange propensity towards trusting in anything [...]
You are my hiding place You always fill my heart With songs of deliverance Whenever I am afraid I will trust in You I will trust in You Let the weak say I am strong In the strength of the Lord I will trust in You An oldie but goodie. It’d been on my mind [...]
“And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” — Genesis 2:25 “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” — Colossians 3:3-4 Lately, I’ve been pondering on the idea [...]
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 “But he said to me, [...]
Modern life is in many ways a kind of spiritual fog. We blanket ourselves in technology and we wrap ourselves with fantasy, but in reality we are living like slaves rather than kings. We think we are masters of our fate because we can choose to buy a 42″ HDTV rather than a 37″. We [...]
I’m behind the times when it comes to the hit TV show Lost. I’m making my way through Season 1 via iTunes, and I just finished an episode where one of the characters seeks out another for revenge — to kill that person because of a perceived culpability in the death of a loved one. [...]
I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel, but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. For this perhaps is [...]
Ooo boy. This week has shaped up to be a real doozy. To be honest, the last thing I can imagine doing today is writing something meaningful from a spiritual perspective because I’m currently trying to get my own act together! So I’ll steal something that someone else talked about that has been worming its [...]
