Held in Trust?
Suppose there existed in your family an inheritance of treasured possessions which defined who you were, celebrated what you stood for, featured the many and varied gifts and talents of your forebears, and was the envy of every other family. How would you try to protect that? Would you, for example, entrust that heritage to […]
Lazy Faith
Lazy Faith July/Holiness 19 July 2010 What is best in religion? Simplicity and sincerity. A lazy religiosity, which avoids much hardship, will have much trial in the fire, will have little reward in heaven. – Colman mac Beognai, Aipgitir Chrabaid (Irish, 7th century) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, […]
Psalm 11:1-3 In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain,
Psalm 11:1-3 To the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain, for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; if the foundations […]
The First Commandment No other gods
Deuteronomy 11.1, 2
“You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm…”