Violence solves no social problems; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Through the vistas of time a voice still cries to every potential Peter, “Put up your sword!" The shores of history are white with the bleached bones of nations and communities that failed to follow this command. Martin Luther King Jr. on …
Stuck in traffic… “What’s going on up there?!”
“We are not intended to understand life. If I can understand a thing and can define it, I am its master. Logic and reason are always on the hunt for definition, and anything that can’t be defined is apt to be defied…” Oswald Chambers I don’t believe Christians – even real good ones – are …
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How to Make Spiritual Progress
Recently I’ve gotten back into the writings of A.W. Tozer. Back in the 1970s and 80s his books were a staple of my spiritual life. I highly recommend these in particular: The Knowledge of the Holy (my all time favorite of his), The Pursuit of God, The Root of the Righteous, Born After Midnight, That …
How can a bunch of crying Christians do the world any good?
My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:11 So, are you saying we’re supposed to just sit around and cry about how bad the world is? Aren’t we …
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Another Reason to Weep
A few years ago a brother from our church rushed into the church office on a weekday lunchtime and said, “There are two kids in the bushes right outside having sex!” “What are you talking about?” I said. “I’m not making this up. When I passed by the front of the church, there was a …
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