No discussion of holiness is true or helpful without a healthy appreciation for how earnestly Satan wants to destroy us. Steal, kill, and destroy is how Jesus described it (John 10:10). Satan lured A…
Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago
When our boys were young, they would gather blankets, pillows, and cushions in the basement and build elaborate forts. This was their most-played game, a weekly if not daily affair. Once constructed …
Published on 10 months ago
God has a beauty to unveil. There's a reason that a man is captivated by a woman. Eve is the crown of creation. If you follow the Genesis narrative carefully, you'll see that each new stage of creati…
Published on 10 months ago
In the dawn of our childhood, we lived with God in a garden paradise. We walked with our Abba Father in the cool of the day, in conversational intimacy. We were ordinary mystics, drinking in the rich…
Published on 10 months ago
I have counseled thousands of men and women, and I can tell you with utter confidence — both from their experiences and my own — that whatever else the enemy brings against you, he will always bring …
Published on 10 months ago
Chesterton conducted something of a personal experiment to see what the overall impression would be if a person simply read the Gospels without any previous information regarding Jesus. What he found…
Published on 10 months ago
Repeated processes shape the soul; this has been core to discipleship for millennia.
It was inevitable that years of Internet life would shape our souls whether we wanted it to or not. As a friend sai…
Published on 10 months ago
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and th…
Published on 10 months ago
Waiting can be an experience of emptiness. Our hands are empty. Our desires unfulfilled. Our hearts feel empty as well.
George MacDonald described it this way:
’Tis hard for man to rouse his spirit …
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
The Internet has taught its disciples that there shall be no mystery to anything. We can get to the bottom of any question, lay open the bare facts to any secret. In fact, if there is mystery, we’ve …
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
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