"There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love." - Peter Kreeft On a snowy night in January of 1980, I had a crisis moment. The crisis came after reading the response of Jesus to a question regarding the greatest commandment. According to Jesus, the greatest commandment is to love our God …
So many people struggle with praying according to the will of our God. Often, we assume that our impressions of what to pray for are extremely limited by our personal opinion, our own motives and values, a lack of intimate knowledge or our God, little understanding of how He works among and within us, and …
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Here is an interesting story about prayer and our God speaking to people. I wrote this true story several years ago for my business website, Level 5 Services.com On April 30, 1983, Lois Main returned from a conference to her home in Coalinga, California. An oil town of 6,757 people, Coalinga is nestled in a …
Today is the western world's traditional Christmas Day. For the majority of people, it is mostly if not completely an irreligious holiday. Christ Jesus appearing as a human being has little or nothing to do with their celebration, if they celebrate anything at all. For many it is a day to look back on an …
I wonder if the night before the incarnation of Christ the Son of God was a night when much of creation held its breath. Something enormous, something beyond momentous was about to happen. Something all creation was waiting for with groaning. The redemption of all creation was about to begin. The restoration of it all …
Photo: Abby (left) and Jackson (right) “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” Josh Billings In the last post, I introduced you to my dog Jackson, a most fearful and skittish canine. Remember that Jackson and his companion, Abby, were both acquired from the local shelter, …
Apparently, I miscalculated the amount of liquids I needed to drink while hiking six miles at 10,000 feet in elevation. I had forgotten just how much liquid I would expirate while gasping and wheezing uphill at that elevation, I suspect. This miscalculation would come back to haunt me in the middle of night. It would …
“Indeed, taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.” ― Brooke Foss …
As we near the Easter celebration, the proliferation of bunnies, eggs, flowers, and pastel colors pushes and shoves the Easter story – the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth – off the stage. Instead of solemnity and introspection at the greatest human event in history, we are beset with sales, gaudy trinkets, and …
This is the fourth post on this topic. “When trials and temptations crowd into your life, don’t resent them…welcome them as friends!” How can such difficulties possibly be for our good? And if they are for our good, does our God keep adding more adversity, more difficulty to our lives? And if He does that, …
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