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God’s Time
He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. — 2 Corinthians 6:2 There are two meanings in the English word “time.” The ancient Greeks, however, who were much more perceptive…
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Broken Parts
Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of…
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The Paradox
We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, yet less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgement; more experts, yet more problems. We…
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Shattered Gates
I consider the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. — William Booth The Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets forecast it. The Gospels and the Epistles allude to it. Ancient Christian…
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Worldview
In the days to come, circumstances will compel Christians—particularly those in certain professions—to rethink our relationship to our work. We will be shown the door in some cases because of our beliefs. In others, the doors will never open in the first place—and if they do, men and women of conscience will not be able…
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Guts and Perversity
Like our earliest Christian ancestors, we stand together to defy the world. We insist that Jesus rules the world, that He hates much of what is going on down here, and that He will correct and judge when He returns. We insist that much of what is culturally normative and ascendent is sinful and wrong…
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What We’re Looking At
They who are God’s without reserve are in every state content, for they will only what He wills and desire to do for Him whatever He desires them to do. They strip themselves of everything, and in this nakedness find all things restored a hundredfold. — J. R. Miller As consternation rises in the hearts…
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The Essential Church
The Essential Church Likely few Scots anticipated the impending persecution that would fall on the congregation of Reformed believers who sat with agitated attention to the new liturgy. The St. Giles Cathedral loomed large and Gothic on this fateful, balmy summer Sunday in 1637 Edinburgh. At some point while James Hannay, the Dean of Edinburgh,…
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The Last Lesson
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. — Billy Graham If you know Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, then you know that the central, heroic character, Frodo, the ring-bearer, fails to throw the Ring into the fires of Mount Doom at the end of his arduous…
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Forgiveness
The key is to firmly grasp that God is still working his plan even when we can’t see it. God wants us to live intentionally—believing that his unseen hand and the invisible agents loyal to him and us (Hebrews 1:14) are engaged in our circumstances. Each of us is vital to someone’s path to the…
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Para Bellum
To progress and to grow; to grow to strive in a world that changes fast. To learn how to adapt when conditions work against us. It’s an endeavor to be sharper and smarter. As old as time itself, relentlessly pushing the boundaries further, and further again, and again, and again.They are, without a doubt, the…
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Epitaph
We’re living in a country and time where Don Quixote is the model of sanity. Views that only a few years ago would have been considered tinfoil-hat territory are now being discussed by straight-faced mainstream newscasters. Extremists on both sides of the political spectrum are flailing around breaking things with no apparent goal in mind…
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Book of Life
The heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament shows His handiwork. … I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written,when as yet there were none of…
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Never Give In
This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large, or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. — Winston Churchill “There was given to me a thorn in the flesh … to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.…
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Humility
There are two things about human beings that remain infallibly certain and true all the time. One, that there is a moral law written in the human heart. And, two, that we invariably break it. In doing so, however, we necessarily feel guilt. “Blessed be sin, if it teaches us shame.” — C.S. Lewis Our…
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Work and Pray
St. Benedict found the world, physical and social, in ruins, and his mission was to restore it in the way not of science, but of nature, not as if setting about to do it, not professing to do it by any set time, or by any rare specific, or by any series of strokes, but…
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Crouching Lion
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky The…
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Quietness and Confidence
The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. — Meister Eckhart An elk does not have to work at having a quiet mind; it feels content standing in a field for hours with its fellow elk, chewing grass. I never saw the elk…
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Shared
May the road rise up to meet you.May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face,The rains fall soft upon your fields,And, until we meet again,May God hold you in the palm of His hand. — Irish Blessing I was thinking about this site’s Mission to create a place…
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When the Deal Goes Down
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,…
