LENT: Crying From the Depths
All knowing and still all loving Father, have mercy on us, for we have gotten confused. We love you and we love your ways, yet we have loved the world, too.
Mortal Sloth
State of the Church: The Celtic Revival (26) I am surprised, I must confess, at such ease, and at the source of this mortal sloth which has almost overwhelmed us all; I know not the hearts, ears, senses, that the Lord’s own fiery words have failed to arouse in the watchfulness of an ever-burning zeal, […]
Love like God
How can we grow in loving God and our neighbors? The place to start is in understanding God’s love and then starting to love others that way. Today’s excerpt from The Kingdom Turn is found on pages 152 and 153: “To love, in other words, is to relate to other beings as God does. We know from […]
Plundering the Strong Man’s House
Matthew 12: The Lord and His Family (4) Pray Psalm 35.9, 10.And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD;It shall rejoice in His salvation.All my bones shall say,“LORD, who is like You,Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him,Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?” Sing Psalm 35.9, 10.Creation: The Spacious […]
Restoration
Hosea 6:7–7:3 (NIV) “As at Adam, they have broken the covenant;they were unfaithful to me there.Gilead is a city of evildoers,stained with footprints of blood.As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,so do bands of priests;they murder on the road to Shechem,carrying out their wicked schemes.I have seen a horrible thing in Israel:There Ephraim is […]